Roberta Flack Quotes
Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.
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Micro satellites, about the size of a loaf of bread, are going to be going into space more and more.
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I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.
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When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.
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The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.
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Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.
