Janelle Monae Quotes

We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.

Janelle Monae

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DestinationBlackAmericanDoors

The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success.

Robert Green Ingersoll

LifeLoveSuccessGoodWomanMan

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

Stephen Sondheim

PeopleRichYouInvestmentPersonal

My career seems to have worked out OK, especially since I turned 40. I've always had a character part, mind you - I've never played the princess. But if you're used to doing that, it must be soul-destroying to hit 40 and suddenly find there's nothing for you to do.

Siobhan Finneran

CharacterMindDoingYouCareerOut

It's the basic rule of musicals: Characters sing when their emotions become so intense that they can't do anything else.

Tom Kitt

EmotionsBecomeAnythingRuleSing

I eat a lot of fruit because if I fill up on strawberries or an apple, then I'll have one small piece of cheesecake rather than two big pieces.

Tom Frieden

FruitSmallAppleStrawberriesEat

People say that when you get to a certain age that you start to mellow. I have no idea what these people are talking about.

Rita Moreno

AgePeopleStartTalkingYouSay

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

Rupert Sheldrake

ScienceWritingVoiceActiveWithin

Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.

Luke Bryan

GoodRainSkyGrowing UpLooking

If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.

Jason Bateman

GoodBestMeComedyLookActing

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

Douglas Adams

WeatherFarmerYouComplainingFix

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

Chris Barber

MusicHappyThinkYouPlayJazz

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Arnold H. Glasow

HeartGreatColdStoryNothingHeat

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