Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.
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I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.
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You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that.
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The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.
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We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't.
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My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.
