Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is about 8.3% that's a virus. In other words we're probably about seven times more virus than we are human genes, which is kind of a weird way to thinking about yourself.
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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
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I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.
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I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.
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If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
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I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.
