M. Shadows Quotes
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.
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Twigs has been my nickname for years, and I guess a lot of people close to me called me Twigs, like, as a nickname. Before I even did dancing properly or anything, like, substantially creative, I was still Twigs.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.
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There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.
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You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
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I have made a promise to myself that I will have no limitations as an actor. I have realised I have to pay attention to the commercials or the business aspect of cinema, but deep inside, I am purely an artiste.
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I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.
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I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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Anyone who believes that we can afford collectively what we cannot afford individually is delusional.
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My life could have easily gone another way. But I had this one teacher who gave me direction and got me into performing. She got me into touring with an educational play called 'The Inner Circle' along with Pedro Zamora from MTV's 'The Real World.'
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it.
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If I ran the Grammys, it would probably go bankrupt.
