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Stevie Wonder Quotes

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 13, 1950

Topics

Family Father Mother Person Dominant

It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.

You Play Difference Out Leave Makes

Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throws herself into a dip that often, so I don't think he thought she was really going to do it.

Melissa McCarthy

Mother Think Thought Wedding Lady

I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is completely insane.

School Waiting Me Something Film

Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.

Art Writing Craft Difference Like

Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing to aim for quality and to take risks.

Quality Risks Space Financial Media

I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don't like to get ideas above your station, especially a boy from the south side of Glasgow.

Good Ideas You Take For Granted Boy

While incarcerated, I had no bank statements, no bills, no credit history. In our interconnected world of big data, I appeared to be no different than a deceased person.

Chelsea Manning

History World Data Credit Person

I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

Christina Aguilera

Great Stand Up Believe Think Stand

Hal Prince and Andrew actually asked me if I would be interested in continuing with 'Phantom', but obviously I was under contract to 'Les Mis' by then.

Me Contract Would Prince Interested

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Anthony Trollope

Honesty Man Slow Political Become

I'm old-fashioned that way. I don't believe you turn the president down.

Believe You Down Way President Turn

People ask me, 'What were you thinking during that game-winning penalty kick in the 2011 World Cup?' I was actually thinking absolutely nothing. I just walked up there and was so inspired by my teammates who rocked all their PKs; they just killed it. I figured I might as well do the same, or they might have my neck.

People Me World Thinking You Ask

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