- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make these instruments with their voices. It was just unbelievable. I couldn't explain it.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under the name The Valentinos. I remember Sam Cooke saying, 'I want you to go in there with James Brown. I couldn't be as hard on you as James Brown would be.' But we came out marching like soldiers.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right.
- Ignorant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listen, you ignorant hillbillies, Lynyrd Skynyrd's dead. They're dead, they're dead, they're dead. The South's not risin' again. The slaves have been emancipated.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.
- Priorities
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm making movies about people as flawed as myself and the viewers. So if you just have a reptilian brain and live your life simply by reacting to things, my movies aren't going to work for you.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I continue to do standup because there's a connection with a live audience - there are skills that you do learn as a standup comedian that help you on a set.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When doing a remake, you're on safer territory. You know you cannot go absolutely wrong. But how right it goes depends on various factors like casting and the way you adapt the film.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020