Beth Ditto Quotes

When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.

Beth Ditto

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My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.

Jimmy Smits

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We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

Jim Capaldi

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Those companies that don't see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money and growth. When baseball, football and basketball couldn't see the field, they missed talent and growth. The same is true in the tech industry.

Jesse Jackson

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I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

Jennifer Damiano

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'Freedom' is my big buzzword in life. It's just my favorite word. And I think so many of my choices have been about gaining freedom.

Robert Gant

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War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

Angelina Jolie

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I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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I had this ego that was unstable. If you said anything about me good or bad, it really went to my head.

Metta World Peace

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I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

Roger Waters

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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Robertson Davies

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I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to that effect - and it seems I have - then that is what spells success to me.

Jayne Mansfield

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It's pretty hard to play 'Romeo and Juliet' with someone and not fall in love.

Douglas Hodge

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