#yea

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#figure #i #life #me #means

In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#because #big #convince #fact #honey

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#coming #english #feel #hell #here

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day. ↗

— Robert Redford

#day #did #exactly #festival #first

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#believed #could #get #here #i

I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#before #came #career #ever #had

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#america #arrived #bad #company #dreadful

My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#albums #audience #bought #bring #concert

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#ago #any #ask #me #please

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet. ↗

— Robert Redford

#actor #arrived #art #art student #behaved