My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.


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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
WALT KELLY
In like a dimwit, out like a light.
WALT KELLY
Every burden is a blessing.
WALT KELLY
Television can be a very fickle place.
MEGYN KELLY
There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New...
KELLY PRICE
My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to v...
KELLY WEARSTLER
I think Miami is such a beautiful, sexy, gorgeous place. I love the people there.
MINKA KELLY
Everything happens for a reason. But I would love to still be at Clemson.
CHAD KELLY
Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.
KELLY ROWLAND
I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold ho...
KELLY WEARSTLER
I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a...
PATSY KELLY
In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing ...
PATSY KELLY
Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to l...
SCOTT KELLY
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geom...
ELLSWORTH KELLY
The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young...
KELLY JONES
I am a karmayogi-someone who becomes conscious of herself and the Divine through work, not through m...
KELLY CUTRONE
I do sing in the car. I actually sing Britney Spears songs in the car - me and a close friend of min...
KELLY ROWLAND
Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin...
MARK KELLY
You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-...
KELLY AYOTTE
But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.
MOIRA KELLY
As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our e...
SUE KELLY
Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a ...
SUE KELLY
Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no out...
SUE KELLY
There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. ...
KELLY SLATER
I remember trying to explain the class system to a Canadian friend when we started at RADA. The funn...
KATHERINE KELLY
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of...
KEVIN KELLY
I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of ...
KELLY BROOK
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of ce...
KEVIN KELLY
Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
KEVIN KELLY
People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.
KELLY BROOK
We found Trent and pulled him off the leggy girl. “Trent, it’s time to get home before your pare...
AMANDA KELLY
This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year....
KELLY CUTRONE
Sometimes the fear of your soul's purpose is overridden by your heart's knowing that now is the time...
KELLY MARTIN
When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly s...
KELLY CUTRONE
We have met the enemy and it is us.
WALT KELLY
I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't belie...
BARBARA KELLY
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction that if we don't do th...
PETRA KELLY
What America needs is more young people who will carry to their jobs the same enthusiasm for getting...
M.A. KELLY
We have met the enemy and he is us.
WALT KELLY
Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands a...
THOMAS KELLY
I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small...
SUE KELLY
Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.
KELLY LYNCH
The calluses on your feet in space will eventually fall off. So, the bottoms of your feet become ver...
SCOTT KELLY
Before turning 32 is an amazing time to do radical things. You figure out who you are while you figu...
KELLY CUTRONE
Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn't mean there's any personal an...
MEGYN KELLY
The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.
KELLY PRESTON
Adjusting to space is easier than adjusting to Earth for me.
SCOTT KELLY
Why can't there be an acknowledgment that, in some instances, women remove themselves from the w...
MEGYN KELLY
Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want...
MOIRA KELLY
Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which ...
MEGYN KELLY
I believe in exploration, and I will miss being on the front lines of that endeavor. On one hand, I ...
SCOTT KELLY
There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy considera...
GENE KELLY
My style is understated because everything I wear, I want it to have an effortless feel to it. I alw...
TORI KELLY
So many people say you have to remember to grab hold of your bride or groom and spend time with them...
KATHERINE KELLY