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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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
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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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“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.”
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Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.
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I'm going to go out on tour when I feel like going on tour.
