Eleanora Fagan (Billie Holiday) Quotes
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I don't care if I never see Texas again.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.
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I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
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I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.
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I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
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We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love.'
