Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
It's up to to you to perfect that gift that you've been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.
Quotes to Explore
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.
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One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've done for 3,000 performances or a song you're singing for the 3,000th time. My job is to find that spark that keeps it fresh and alive.
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My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.
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I wasn't especially a Broadway type. I liked film acting better. I didn't want to stay up late. I wasn't a smoker, a drinker, or a drug-taker. So that kind of Broadway life - not that that's what they do. But they do stay up late and hang out at Joe Allen's until 2 in the morning, and that just wasn't for me.
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I had problems walking, so I knew I couldn't do any running. I couldn't do it. It's real swollen.
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For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart.
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It's up to to you to perfect that gift that you've been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.
