Roberta Flack Quotes
I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.
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Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.
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I think, as time passes, people will come to see that the United States' credit standing is really not quite the same level as the ones that we rate AAA.
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I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.
