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Janelle Monae Quotes

Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 1, 1985

Topics

Work Balance You Play Everything

There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.

Change Art Past Limits Present Grow

I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done.

Melissa McCarthy

Believe Heaven Done I Believe Then

What is it about a baby bump that makes people feel it's okay to say things like, 'God! You are big!'

God People Baby Feel You Say

I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

John Paul DeJoria

Detail Management Ignore Attention

I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.

Food Internet Magic House Become

I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, doesn't have ulcers or booze problems or an anxiety complex. He doesn't listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model airplanes.

Problems Anxiety Hobby Create Crime

My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to college, even though I'd long stopped believing in God.

Mother God College Long Believing

My older brothers have their own children, and they have to go to soccer practice and football practice on the weekends. They're doing their thing and on the weekends, and I'm on the road. The busier we get, the less time we get to see each other. That's why, when we see each other, it's really, really kind of special.

Children Time Football Practice Road

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

Mickey Spillane

Hero Die You Why Never Heroes

For me, summer hasn't really started until tomatoes reappear in local farmers' markets.

Me Summer Farmers Started Markets

In life, I'm like Molly Brown. I've had tough times along the way and gone through experiences that many women have gone through. But I ain't down yet.

Debbie Reynolds

Life Women Tough Times Tough Down

My work makes me a better mom. It gives me a little door to step out of my parenting and bring the excitement from my day back home.

Christie Brinkley

Work Home Parenting Day Step Mom

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