Janet Jackson Quotes
I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
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God is everywhere.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?
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You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.
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I think when you are a cool guy but also a hot guy, that makes you even more sexy.
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I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.
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I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
