Brandy (Brandy Rayana Norwood) Quotes
I was just so honored to play the role of Cinderella and to just be the first African-American princess, that's just historic for me, that's such a mark in my life and my career and then the bonus of just working with my favorite person in the whole world, Whitney Houston, like her voice just did something to my spirit.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.
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We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
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I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.
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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
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I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from.
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If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
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I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.
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The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I was just so honored to play the role of Cinderella and to just be the first African-American princess, that's just historic for me, that's such a mark in my life and my career and then the bonus of just working with my favorite person in the whole world, Whitney Houston, like her voice just did something to my spirit.
