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Aretha Franklin Quotes

Many of my friends were there at Motown. The studio was only a few blocks from where my dad's home was, where we lived.

Aretha Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Home Friends Lived Motown Where Few

I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn't annoy parents. I used The Beatles 'Rocky Raccoon' as sort of a starting place for my writing.

Parents Baby Writing Place Write

There are things that I am nostalgic about from the 'good old days.' I loved motion control cameras, actually. I love the way they sound. I used to do a lot of miniature work, and it's still warranted, but it's done less often, largely for budgetary, schedule, and flexibility reasons.

Work Love Good I Am Control Loved

I learned a valuable lesson doing 'Mr. Sunshine,' which is that I didn't want to be in charge because it's too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It's like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.

Sunshine Dinner Moving Night Eating

My past has been recorded, it's been videoed. It's been exploited all over the Internet.

Past Internet Over Been Exploited

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Kindness Men Words Reputation Enter

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

Mother Beautiful I Am Lucky Very Am

I think a lot of people want to blame their fathers for not being good enough when they were growing up. I think it can be an excuse for not coming to terms with your own problems.

Good People Growing Up Blame Think

It's very exciting to continue to work at DreamWorks.

Work Exciting Continue Very

I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex.

Work Time Present Interesting Never

Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for vigilance increases. These rules, let it be understood, may be kindly while firmly enforced. I would never suffer any exhibition of ill-temper or an arbitrary exercise of authority.

Exercise Rules Numbers Authority May

We have antiquated policies that were put in place in the 1970s that prohibit us from exporting our crude oil, yet we have allies around the globe asking the United States to provide them with a stable supply of energy.

Energy Place Oil United Us Asking

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Me Watching Beverly Hills Out Up

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