Lisa Stansfield Quotes
"One of the first things I remember is my mum doing the housework to The Supremes. When you hear music like that when you're young, it stays with you."
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
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Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.
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The fans that come and see us are of every age and every colour and are so diverse, but the one thing they share is that they are all really excited about our music.
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Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
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People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
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"One of the first things I remember is my mum doing the housework to The Supremes. When you hear music like that when you're young, it stays with you."
