Mary J. Blige Quotes
I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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Remember me when you do pray that hope doth lead from day to day.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.
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In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
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I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that.
