Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
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I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.
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My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.
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Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
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I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.
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Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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Einstein’s 1905 paper came out and suddenly changed people’s thinking about space-time. We’re again in the middle of something like that. When the dust settles, time—whatever it may be—could turn out to be even stranger and more illusory than even Einstein could imagine.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
