Brandy (Brandy Rayana Norwood) Quotes
My daughter, I can't give up because she's watching and she's here and she's waiting for me to be an example. So, between her, myself, and my will, and me pushing myself, that's my inspiration.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
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I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.
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I do believe that in the future there will be a movie called 'Deadpool vs. Wolverine'.
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It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
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Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
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I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
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First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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I started watching 'SNL' when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.
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I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to make a sincere depiction of a daughter who has lost her father, or the jealousy one can feel towards a daughter who has become more beautiful than you and whose stepfather starts to take her shopping.
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I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.
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It's taken me 40-something years, but I embrace the curl. My littlest daughter has the same hair. She likes it when my hair is curly, so I wear it for her.
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My daughter, I can't give up because she's watching and she's here and she's waiting for me to be an example. So, between her, myself, and my will, and me pushing myself, that's my inspiration.
