SZA (Solána Imani Rowe) Quotes
It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you're too young to trust yourself.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.
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My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
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The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
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The truth of why I used to listen to Arrested Development on my Walkman was because if I didn't, it would take me 20 minutes to walk to school. If I did, it took me 15. That's the reason I loved it. I just had more of a kick in my step, more of a bounce, so I'd walk quicker.
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Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.
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People don't actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath. (p. 184)
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Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
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It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you're too young to trust yourself.
