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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I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.
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Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.
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There wasn't really one time in my life where I was like, 'I want to be a model!'
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I think it is likely that within every department there are some officers who subtly, if not otherwise, are biased in the way they go about enforcing the law. I think that is just life. We know that to be true.
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What's great about working with EPIX is that we have unparalleled access to the top movie talent and do exclusive 1:1 sit-down interviews with the actors, sometimes before anyone else does. With 'The Hunger Games,' we had our own studio set up and did 1:1s with Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Lenny Kravitz, etc.
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The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.
