Philip Treacy Quotes
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance.
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Ever since I was young, I was always interested in exploring spirituality. I know that there are many paths to God, there is not just one path.
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Many people who excel are self-taught.
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No second chances at a single moment.
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The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.
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I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.
