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Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted. ↗

— Norah Jones

#distracted #get #home #really #record

I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny. ↗

— Orlando Jones

#belt #commercials #funny #go #i

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando. ↗

— Orlando Jones

#ago #being #between #brando #difference

That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap. ↗

— Orlando Jones

#around #character #desire #discover #earth

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#carpenter #chicago #dime #family #family members

We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#box #care #honey #i #jars

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#accomplished #hoped #i #musician

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#felt #had #i #i am #i was raised

I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#around #because #community #empowered #fancy

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ↗

— Carl Jung

#both #chemical #contact #like #meeting