Fantasia Barrino Quotes

I wanted to be like some of the other young ladies that were in my school. I used to get picked on in church. Nobody wants to hang out with me. I want to hang out with the cool girls, and I started to take the wrong turn and do things I knew wasn't right.

Fantasia Barrino

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SchoolMeCoolChurchWrongYoung

There was a library near us in San Francisco. It was the West Portal Public Library. I would ask my father to drive me there at night and pick me up when it closed. I think he was worried about this routine but never let on. Also, I kept this a secret from my friends, as I don't think it would have been considered the 'coolest' habit.

Jeffrey Tambor

FatherHabitMeNightDriveLibrary

I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way.

Steven Rodney McQueen

WorkEnvironmentKindWayHierarchy

I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

Steven Wright

PeopleThoughtFriendsTellHead

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

Tone Loc

ManFightingTryingYouKnowOut

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Mary Shelley

WomenLookWayMindsBeginBeen

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

Luciano Berio

MusicMyselfSayingBetterFindGet

Most apocalyptic fiction makes it very clear that it's the end of the world. But 'Bird Box' hasn't convinced me of that. Is 'Bird Box' instead a suburban neurotic nightmare? I don't think so. But it's fun to consider.

Josh Malerman

BirdFunMeWorldThinkEnd

And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.

Dennis Muren

StartAestheticYouLookNewSide

My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especially short with Rhonda and me that afternoon, which I attributed to the heat. I was oblivious to the mounting hostilities in our basement apartment.

Deval Patrick

FatherMotherDayMemoryMeShort

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

Chelsea Clinton

LifeAmbitionTryEngineerWould

I have a lot of respect for all the artists I get compared to, even if, as an artist, you prefer to have your own identity.

Brittany Howard

RespectIdentityYouArtistOwnGet

Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.

Priyamvada Natarajan

KnowingAlwaysQuestBeenLiteral

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