SZA (Solána Imani Rowe) Quotes
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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Nashville is only a couple of hours from New York, and people just move at a slower pace there - and they don't care who you are or what you do.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
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The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.
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I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.
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In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.
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People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.
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My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
