Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Aretha Franklin Quotes

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

Aretha Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 25, 1942 - August 16, 2018

Topics

Door Back Go Out Got Crying

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

Truth Me Reach Country Living See

Columnists must make sure that when they describe an event, they are being accurate in their description. When they quote someone, they are required to do so accurately. Errors that are made must be corrected openly and quickly.

Andrew Rosenthal

Someone Quote Being Event Must Sure

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

Music Style Architecture Poetry Look

I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have liked to do. I'd always wanted to write a book - not a small undertaking. I never felt I had the time or creative energy to spare in order to write one as well as I wanted.

Time Creative College Small Energy

Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many things.

Business Amazing Winning You Feeling

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

People Democracy Over Politicians

I spent the whole first year of my career just on my legs. If you have good legs under you, then you can punch. Anybody can stand and throw their hands and look like an idiot. If you actually want to learn how to punch, you have to work on being balanced on your legs and feeling your legs under you. Feel the ground.

Work Good Stand Learn Year Look

In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation.

Book Generation Army Living Island

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

Jason Robert Brown

People Think Laugh Comedy You Drama

The first time I met Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was just beautiful, but I thought she was a little young.

Beautiful Time Thought Young She

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work!

Work Love Money Politics Too Much

You get bored if you do the same thing too much.

You Too Much Same Bored Get Much

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Aretha Franklin