Mariah Carey Quotes
We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that upper register? I doubt it.
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Isolationism is over.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A Quiet Thing' a cappella, and it was such a differentiating moment for me. I realized that we are separate from each other - she has dreams and goals.
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If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
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Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
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I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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This is near enough true bliss.
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There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain.
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American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.
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Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
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I already had a lot of friends at school who didn't care about the whole acting thing, so there was no reason for me to not be in school.
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I've just always been interested in moving past the keyboard and mouse.
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I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an interest in the arts. I took piano lessons and singing lessons, acting lessons. So it was all new to them, but my parents were great.
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We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that upper register? I doubt it.
