Kelela Mizanekristos (Kelela) Quotes
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I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
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When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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I think you try to improve every season and every game and be prepared about certain defensemen you're playing against, certain ways to find open ice.
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Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
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After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
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It's a hard thing for me to wrap my mind around the C word: celebrity. Rock stars are celebrities because they're larger than life. As an actor, you have to play the everyman and the everygirl. If you start treating people in the real world like assistants, that's not a good look. But my friends keep me grounded.
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I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.
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If you don't live in an area with good public schools, you can move to a different place if you have the financial means to do so.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.
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I want to empower.
