Adele Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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I don't feel closeted.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.
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We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we're doing is the music that people want, that people love.
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Well, just coming off the stage and there's like 180,000 people out there and your adrenaline is going so high, and you're doing so much and it's hard to just put your head on the pillow and sleep because it just goes on and on, even after you're off the stage.
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We've always been a band of the people, and we will always remain a band of the people.
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The rise of women and feminism is well documented. What is equally fascinating - and less talked about - is the impact this has had on men.
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People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.
