Ann-Marie Campbell Quotes
I grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, as the youngest of four children and the only girl. My father died when I was only a year and a half. He was killed in a car accident when he was 26.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined.An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring.
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I have a theory that is the only original things we ever do are mistakes. The only thing that we can really attribute to ourselves that is purely original are our screw-ups.
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Actually, I never really thought I would be a model. I never knew a lot about fashion and magazines, and I never paid attention to it. I was a young girl, though.
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I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school.
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I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.
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I grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, as the youngest of four children and the only girl. My father died when I was only a year and a half. He was killed in a car accident when he was 26.
