
Top 100 Estelle's Quotes
#1. Tyler has left me to deal with our mess all by myself. It was supposed to be us against the world, Tyler and me versus everyone else. Now it's just me.
Estelle Maskame
#2. I'm so sick of hearing that U.K. hip hop doesn't get credit and success when I'm working to get it - for me and for others, too.
Estelle
#3. I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to be.
Estelle
#4. My mind is always going.
Estelle
#6. I always have to get my U.K. fix, and 'Downton Abbey' is definitely that. I absolutely love period dramas, but this one is particularly appealing - following the ins and outs of aristocracy as well as the interaction between the rich and the poor.
Estelle
#7. I really wish you hadn't said sorry for it. Because apologizing means regretting.
Estelle Maskame
#8. I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.
Estelle Getty
#9. I'm very aware of how well I am operating in situations that I would have been incapable of broaching even last summer. Chris, Sabin, Eric, and Estelle, have rescued me, and I can't fathom how I can ever begin to repay them.
Jessica Park
#10. I feel like it's not a bad average for every album I've got in the United States to be nominated for something off the album.
Estelle
#11. By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.
Estelle Morris
#12. Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious to it.
Estelle
#13. I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.
Estelle Morris
#14. I wouldn't mind being dead - it would be something new.
Estelle Winwood
#15. With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.
Estelle
#16. We have sneered at one another's weaknesses. Mine is insecurity. Tyler's is the truth.
And beneath it all lies attraction.
Estelle Maskame
#17. I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.
Estelle Fanta Swaray
#18. I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.
Estelle
#19. I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.
Estelle
#20. A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.
Estelle
#21. I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.
Estelle Parsons
#22. Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.
Estelle Morris
#23. There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
Estelle Parsons
#24. Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.
Estelle
#25. Let me tell you girls the three most important things I learned about life: Number one: Hold fast to your friends; number two: There's no such thing as security; and number three: Don't go see 'Ishtar.'
Estelle Getty
#26. We get older, and we forget that we have to carve a little time out to feel good in your body, in your head, and in your spirit.
Estelle
#27. You've got nothing to be worried about," he whispers slowly, his breath hot against my cheek, "because, baby, I'm all yours.
Estelle Maskame
#28. Canadian stereotypes. "In the east they are less polite than in the west.
Estelle Ryan
#29. I'm the female Jay-Z. I never compared myself to other women artists. I compared myself with the best, and the best is Jay-Z.
Estelle
#30. We promised we'd all stay in touch. Even joked about a yearly reunion. These kinds of goodbyes are the scary goodbyes. The goodbyes where you know the chances of seeing each other again are very slim.
Estelle Maskame
#31. I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.
Estelle
#32. I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.
Estelle Fanta Swaray
#33. I will test a guy to within an inch of his sanity because I've been through too much drama. He has to be 100%.
Estelle
#34. 'Something Good' is a feel-good song. A reminder that you're dope and have something wonderful to offer life and yourself and the world.
Estelle
#35. Walking round the Champs-Elysees late at night is the greatest time.
Estelle
#36. My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.
Estelle
#37. I love singing, so I want to see how far I can take it. I love the challenge, and I won't be happy until I have a wall full of gold discs and seven huge world tours under my belt.
Estelle
#38. I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!
Estelle
#39. The man for me has to have his own life or be as busy as me.
Estelle
#40. sticks and stones might break your bones, but cement pays homage to tradition.
Estelle Getty
#41. A loved one from us has gone, A voice we love is stilled. A place is vacant in our home, Which never will be filled. Estelle Woodhouse, 1898-1987
Jan Karon
#42. But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.
Estelle Parsons
#43. Nobody's going to tell me to rap in an American accent.
Estelle
#44. People want to say something negative before they say something good.
Estelle
#45. I'm not slimming down for anyone and losing my figure.
Estelle
#46. My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do.
Estelle Morris
#47. I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.
Estelle
#48. No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
Estelle
#49. If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.
Estelle Getty
#50. My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.
Estelle Morris
#51. Didn't I tell these motherfuckers to get the fuck up out of my house?" Veronica yelled to no one in particular. To
Shacoby Fleming-Estelle
#53. Music carries the weight of being human, takes it away so you don't have to think at all, you just have to listen. Music tells every story there is.
Estelle Laure
#54. If there is enough space on radio for Busted and McFly, who are basically the same band, or for 50,000 versions of Stereophonics and Coldplay, there must be enough room for all of us.
Estelle
#55. OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September.
Estelle Morris
#56. I never feel that far away from the tabloids.
Estelle
#57. The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.
Estelle Parsons
#58. Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.
Estelle Morris
#59. My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.
Estelle Winwood
#60. I don't mind ... the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.
Estelle Ramey
#61. Luke James has this mystique about him that's not something you can explain; you can only experience it. He's got a whole D'Angelo feel to him as well.
Estelle
#62. In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
Estelle Parsons
#63. A lot of my girlfriends are always telling me they're really strong independent women, but they've got their boy on the side, and they only go over when he calls.
Estelle
#64. Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.
Estelle Ramey
#65. At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
Estelle Morris
#66. I always want to remain inspired.
Estelle
#67. You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.
Estelle
#68. I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama. He didn't win because he was black - people voted for him because he had a plan and because he talked sense and because you believed him.
Estelle Fanta Swaray
#69. The Americans love me because I'm so completely unwilling to change my whole Britishness.
Estelle
#70. When my career slowed, I knew deep down it wasn't over.
Estelle
#71. Why should you stay in one place and one country if they're not offering you a job? It doesn't make sense!
Estelle
#72. I grew up in a family of nine kids.
Estelle
#73. None of this was supposed to happen, [...] but all of it did. I can't feel bas about it and I can't fell sorry about it, because I'm not. It's just the way things have turned out, and honestly, it's not our fault.
Estelle Maskame
#75. All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.
Estelle Parsons
#76. It's gonna take me a lot longer than a year without you to get over you.
Estelle Maskame
#77. My songs are always about overcoming things, whether it's breaking up with a guy or just trying to be happy. They're always about being better.
Estelle
#78. When it comes to you, it's simple : As long as you don't give up, I won't either.
Estelle Maskame
#79. The most personal track would have to be 'Love The Way We Used To.' It's one of the songs that I listen to outside of all the records that I wrote.
Estelle
#80. I earned my share same as everybody. Well, I coulda got killed same as everybody. And I'm wanted by the law same as everybody. I'm a nervous wreck, and that's the truth. I have to take sass from Miss Bonnie Parker all the time. I deserve mine.
Estelle Parsons
#81. I learned that working out gives me a space to get clear. It's not just about the body. It gives me space to process things and get clear in my mind about decisions and things I want to do.
Estelle
#82. The wife Estelle's stone sinks to the right. The dead here seem really dead, and bone lonely, unlike the graves in Italian cemeteries, bedecked with fresh flowers, red votive lights, and photos of the deceased.
Frances Mayes
#83. I remember being, like, the age of 7 and just always being in control of something or someone, a baby somewhere. I had lots of cousins and brothers, and we were all taught that's how you are, you know. Things don't just run themselves; you have to make them run.
Estelle
#84. I use "equal worth" rather than equality because the latter term often assumes that men's historical experience - whether economic, political, or sexual - is the standard to which women should aspire.
Estelle B. Freedman
#85. Just because the crack doesn't show doesn't mean it's not there.
Estelle Laure
#86. That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on form someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.
Estelle Maskame
#87. That's something I've always fond odd, people smile when they're sad. There's no such thing as a sad smile.
Estelle Maskame
#88. I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.
Estelle
#89. Maybe we're all breakable. It's just a question of what breaks us.
Estelle Laure
#90. Eyes on me", he calls. It's the easiest part of all this. Eyes on Tyler ? Ha. They hardly ever rest on anything else.
Estelle Maskame
#91. Too many of you, my friends, are dying. Now it's time for me to do my part and help you.
Estelle Getty
#92. I've always dug Audrey Hepburn. I think she's one of the classic beauties.
Estelle
#93. Reality really isn't as dull as it's cracked up to be.
Estelle
#94. People like the shows I do. I want to be real, to have fun, even when I dance on stage ... it's a buzz.
Estelle
#95. The reality show 'America's Next Top Model' is my girlie pleasure.
Estelle
#96. I'm signed to a U.S. label, and I didn't enjoy the 3 A.M. phone calls. I'm not a great sleeper, so I didn't enjoy being woken up.
Estelle
#97. John Legend is a cool guy. He likes to chill, is easy to talk to and hang out with. He's also inspiring on a musical level.
Estelle
#98. I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album.
Estelle
#99. I never do a show where the people just sit there and look at me. They always sing along. It's going to be a fun time.
Estelle Fanta Swaray
#100. I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.
Estelle
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