Deng Xiaoping Quotes
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
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Paule Marshall does not let the black women in her fiction lose. While they lose friends, lovers, husbands, homes, or jobs, they always find themselves.
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The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
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Every evening, I would excuse myself from playing in the backyard and go inside to watch the evening news... I wanted to get out there and see the world, and as a kid, I knew that Peter Jennings had a thirst and hunger to travel the world, too.
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The fact we came back to 26-26 and to miss out on a win is certainly disappointing but we'll be back.
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It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
