Macy Gray Quotes
It's like any other job: there's a method to it and it's really important to get that down. I'm still working on it, I got a lot to learn. It's one thing to make records but it's a whole 'nother capacity to be a star - whatever that is.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
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I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.
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I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.
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Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.
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I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.
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My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.
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It's like any other job: there's a method to it and it's really important to get that down. I'm still working on it, I got a lot to learn. It's one thing to make records but it's a whole 'nother capacity to be a star - whatever that is.
