NeNe Leakes Quotes

I was kind of reluctant to sing on the 'Housewives' because there are so many 'Housewives' that are singing that can't really sing. I didn't want to get out there and sing and not be taken seriously.

NeNe Leakes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 13, 1967

Topics

SingingWantKindSeriouslyOutGet

I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.

Joely Fisher

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I am travelling half the year around the world, every year, so coming home is one of the most beautiful things.

Andre Rieu

HomeBeautifulI AmWorldYear

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Maxim Gorky

GoodManGood ManStupidBadBrains

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness.

Jeffrey Eugenides

MoneyDayPeopleNameYouHand

I grew up in the projects with four older brothers.

Michael Che

UpOlderFourBrothersProjects

Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.

Su-chin Pak

PowerCultureMoneyIdentityParents

When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal.

Tony McCoy

RideChampionChanceYouDreamGoal

Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.

Mo Ibrahim

TimeDataResultsNowSoundHonest

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

Chelsea Cain

PeopleDecadePortlandLivedOff

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

William Temple

ValueThroughChiefBooksLike

Most musicians are normal people who want to hang out and are really down to earth.

Sharon Van Etten

PeopleMusiciansDownEarthWant

I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.

Toby Jones

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