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.
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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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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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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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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
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There are basic lines of human decency, norms to which society generally agrees and to which we adhere, and we continue to see the Trump presidency eroding these lines.
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For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
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My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.
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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.
