Elena Roger Quotes
I know I want to work for my whole life because I know I can't live without music or dancing. But I don't know if I want to be a big star.
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I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.
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When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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I love to work in all sorts of different situations.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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Mind your own business and don't eat junk food. Treat everyone the way you want to be treated, work hard and love what you do.
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It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.
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I hope that with our music we can inspire other people to be creative and to use their imagination, because it is something that is so lacking nowadays. You have virtual reality, MTV, video games and VCR's. Nobody really wants to think about things or create things. You have programs on a computer which will write a poem for you.
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I know I want to work for my whole life because I know I can't live without music or dancing. But I don't know if I want to be a big star.
