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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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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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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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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One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.
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When I was younger, I thought maybe one day I'd be involved in sport in terms of career.
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I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that I wasn't onstage. I was a cheerleader, president of choir, and in the school play.
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American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.
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I plan to coach at University of Louisville for as long as I can maintain the passion I have for the game of basketball. I don't want to coach anywhere else. I don't believe in anything else as much as I believe in this university and this state. I want to coach as long as they will have me.
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The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.
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'My Fair Lady' and Eliza Doolittle will go on long after me, and someone else will step into it for their moment. That's what's so beautiful about revivals: There have been so many interpretations, and we're just giving it what we can.
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Sometimes when you really try to be earnest, everything disappears. If you really try to make a romantic movie, the first thing that goes out the window is the romance or real passion. It suddenly becomes cute-ville or cozy-ville. It's another world other than life.
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love.
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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.
