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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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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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
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All through school, people told me I looked like Marcia Brady.
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A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
