It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.
Dutch food is terrible, I think. What sort of person starts the day with egg and cheese?
When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.
I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.
The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.
You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.
There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.
But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
The one thing I got right was that I already looked like a punk when punk arrived.
I don't go looking for new fads.
One must be frank to be relevant.
I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.
When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.
They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.
When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.
You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.
When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?
We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.
As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.
Let me be clear to the Australian people, our emissions reductions policies will both protect our environment and seek to reduce the risk and hazard we are seeing today.
Scott Morrison - January 2020, about the Australian bushfires
Australia is not a secular country. It is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose.
When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?
I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.
