The World Motivation
You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.
“You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.”
— Martha Reeves · Barely
You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.
God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.
I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.
A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.
Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.
I don't want to be a Snapchat star. I barely want to be a YouTube star.
Like when I was growing up, when I was in the league the first three years, and I watched playoff basketball, there was barely any calls called. They let the players play, figure it out.
We made 'Mickey and the Bear' with barely any money with a first-time director, a first-time director of photography, and a crew who had just graduated from NYU film school. We were all very much in this together for the first time. There's no famous actor or big explosions. It's not a Marvel movie. I thought nobody was going to see this film.
I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.
My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I remember him as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I followed him everywhere. He showed me how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish.