Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.
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In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.
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Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
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Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.
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When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.
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During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.
