Me Quotes
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A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'
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New Orleans will always be in my heart. New Orleans raised me - it's in my blood.
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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.
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For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
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People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'
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For me, being able to say that my first-ever photo shoot was with one of the most well-known and iconic fashion photographers in the world is unbelievable.
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I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.
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I have never been able to pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes - the stories in my head have always been so much more entertaining. Only books could pull me out of my own imagination, and then it was only to plunge me into someone else's.
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The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.
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If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.
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I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.
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When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.
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Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
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I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.
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So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.
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My aunts still try to fatten me up.
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Part of me wants nothing to do with any Hollywood. But another part of me wants to go there. I feel like I could be successful at it.
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It took me a while to find myself.
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When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me.
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I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one.
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Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
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Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.
