Chaka Fattah Quotes
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
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At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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It took me five years to realize what I could do with my voice. No Auto-Tune - cut all that off.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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Surprisingly, Manhattan casts a sort of undersized shadow onto Long Island. Where I grew up, everyone seemed totally disconnected from the city - ours could have been any suburb, anywhere - though when traffic was thin, it took us only half an hour to get into midtown.
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I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.
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One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
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While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.
Chaka Fattah
