Halle Berry Quotes
While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
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Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
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I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
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Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
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I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.
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The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.
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I have a few go-to moves like jazz hands, shake the booty, stupid eyes. It was once a mating ritual, but now it's all about looking silly and making the kids smile.
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I just always really wanted to swim. It was always a family thing: dad obviously swam, and my sister did, too. And mum used to come along to meets. They had to drag me out of the pool - so there was never any pressure on me to swim. It was just something I loved doing.
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I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.
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How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been?
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While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.
