Mary J. Blige Quotes
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
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I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
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So many people are like, 'I'm perfect.' I'm so imperfect; that's why I'm able to let everything out and let people see everything. 'Cause I'm just a mess like every other person that's a mess out there.
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There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.
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You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.
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Le théâtre n'a jamais été en Angleterre qu'une mode des hautes classes ou une débauche du bas peuple.
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The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.