"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?"

-- Etta James

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“Nothing comes without a price.”
“We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him.”
“I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.”
“Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.”
“If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.”
“If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.”
“I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within the government I was a critic, pushing for reform and always at odds with power brokers within the party.”
“I'm proud of [Big] K.R.I.T., I'm proud that the person that came after me shares so many similar views [as mine]. From him being a producer, to him being a God-fearing man - being political in a sense that he wants to see the poverty-stricken do better. He wants to be the spokesperson for them.”

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