Dionne Warwick Quotes
People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn't know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you've gotta figure out a way of executing it.
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One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.
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I know that people in fashion and people in general hate to be filmed.
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People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.
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People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
