sparks Quotes

“Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.”

“Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.”

“It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?”

“That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.”

“When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.”

“I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!”

“If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.”

“Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.;George Edward Woodberry;morning 48398;There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.;Benjamin Netanyahu;morning 48399;Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brishing your teath is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.;Tom Brady;morning 48400;You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.;James Daly;morning 48401;Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.;John Updike;morning 48402;You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.;Sugar Ray Robinson;morning 48403;I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.;Wole Soyinka;morning 48404;When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.;Dick Gregory;morning 48405;If you do cardio one day and the next day you can do weights, do it that way. If you need to do it at night or in the morning, do it that way. Whatever you need to get it done, just get it done.;LL Cool J;morning 48406;Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer.;Carrie Underwood;morning 48407;I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.;Paula Deen;morning 48408;In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.;Paula Deen;morning 48409;Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.;Louis Nizer;morning 48410;It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.;George Ade;morning 48411;I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.;Peter De Vries;morning 48412;Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.;Nick Clegg;morning 48413;I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.;Antonio Banderas;morning 48414;Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.;Antonio Banderas;morning 48415;I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.;Antonio Banderas;morning 48416;But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.;Ben Affleck;morning 48417;Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.;Amy Grant;morning 48418;I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.;George Foreman;morning 48419;I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.;Tammy Faye Bakker;morning 48420;It's hard to think of yourself as a brand, especially when I have four daughters who kick my butt early in the morning every day before I go to work.;Harvey Weinstein;morning 48421;I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.;Natalie Wood;morning 48422;As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.;Frances O'Grady;morning 48423;It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.;Iain Duncan Smith;morning 48424;Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.;Jack White;morning 48425;Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.;Elizabeth Wurtzel;morning 48426;We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.;Christopher Nolan;morning 48427;Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.;Haruki Murakami;morning 48428;When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.;Haile Gebrselassie;morning 48429;A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.;Van Morrison;morning 48430;I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.;Liz Phair;morning 48431;No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.;Cyril Connolly;morning 48432;The world is new to us every morning - this is God's gift and every man should believe he is reborn each day.;Baal Shem Tov;morning 48433;Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.;Charles Schumer;morning 48434;I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.;Traci Bingham;morning 48435;I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off.;Samantha Morton;morning 48436;I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.;Ice Cube;morning 48437;You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.;John Burns;morning 48438;It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.;Al Pacino;morning 48439;Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.;Christopher Meloni;morning 48440;I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.;Rachel McAdams;morning 48441;In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.;Anthony Trollope;morning 48442;A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.;Robertson Davies;morning 48443;Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.;Shimon Peres;morning 48444;As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.;Janet Jackson;morning 48445;I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.;Roberto Cavalli;morning 48446;I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.;Hugh Laurie;morning 48447;I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning.;Mehmet Oz;morning 48448;I get up at the same time every morning.;Mehmet Oz;morning 48449;I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.;Pete Hamill;morning 48450;One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.;Padma Lakshmi;morning 48451;If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.;A. N. Wilson;morning 48452;I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.;Sloane Crosley;morning 48453;My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?;Sloane Crosley;morning 48454;When I go out clubbing I can dance 'til three o'clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake's 'Best I Ever Had.”

“As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like, 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.”

“I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.”