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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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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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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Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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I want a bad boy in public, and a pussy cat at home!
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.
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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.
