Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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I used to work out on an island called Martha's Vineyard. I ran a pizza oven, I caddied, I worked on a fishing boat, and life is very easy out there. It's a vacation lifestyle all the time.
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People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated.
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When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.
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A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
