Ella Mai Quotes
Mustard believes in me so much. It's good to have a mentor that's been through it. Even though he's a producer, he's been a new artist.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
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Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeonhole things. Lay somebody on an ironing board and put a scalding hot iron on them, get that going real good: 'Oh, this is who Holly Hunter is.'
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I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.
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It's such an amazing team working with both Marvel and Sony, and I have the support of just the very best technicians in the world.
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When it became clear that in fact my father was saying, "It will be interesting to see what you want to do when you grow up," I realized that there was no pressure on that front. And I remember huge relief: Hey, I can go and do what I really know I have to do!
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Mustard believes in me so much. It's good to have a mentor that's been through it. Even though he's a producer, he's been a new artist.
