Chrisette Michele Payne (Chrisette Michele) Quotes
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.
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Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
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We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.
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For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
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If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.
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The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
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I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.
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No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.
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The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
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I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
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It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.
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We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
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It's tougher to work with Amaal, as the brother equation comes in between. We fight like any other siblings and have creative differences. I work harder when I am singing for him, as he is a taskmaster.
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To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
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I've been in jail a couple times. I've been caught shoplifting.
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I breastfed my son for 13 months, and I plan to do at least the same with my daughter. That's an amazing thing for babies, but it's also really good for the mother because it regulates your body again after pregnancy.
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I was never a Trekkie, nor a science fiction guy.
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I'm going to go out on tour when I feel like going on tour.
