Adele Quotes
I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.
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I have no intention of making small bets.
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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
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People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.
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I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky … by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.
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I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you.
