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Etta James Quotes

I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 25, 1938 - January 20, 2012

Topics

Girl People Me Hollywood Over Used

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

Bird Crazy Better Doing Said Bank

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Life Dreams Reality My Life Become

Learning how to have 'healthy' attachments sounds easy, but in fact, for someone like me who had damaged early relationships, it's like learning to be fluent in Chinese.

Amanda de Cadenet

Learning Me Someone Easy Early Like

I feel really comfortable with going for the reality of the drama, but I'm not much for the comedy of it. You have to make people laugh, or you have to be true to the character in such a way that makes people laugh. It's a whole different thing.

Character People Reality Laugh You

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Yourself You Always Well Understood

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

Live Action Reach Trying Go Places

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.

Christian Louboutin

Character Shoes Men Elegance Wealth

What you see is what you get. I don't change who I am from public to private.

Change I Am You See Get Who

My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She knew both of those sports were time-consuming and would keep me busy with hours of practice.

Sports Practice Me Mom Busy Plan

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

William Wordsworth

Age Wise Mind Away Behind Than

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

Funny You Seriously Become Kid Like

I try to always take off makeup. But I'm also human, and sometimes I get lazy. However, I do try to encourage people to make it a habit.

Habit People Makeup Sometimes Lazy

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