Pia Toscano Quotes
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
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I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.
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What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.
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Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
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There's no ex out there who I'm not friends with today, and I'm extremely thankful for that.
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Let's not play games. What I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.
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You have punched this person in the face.
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Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.
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My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism.
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One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.
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With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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As far as my street cred goes, I'll always have that, because I always hang with the kids. I'll jump right off the stage and buy them a beer. I'll be a star on stage, but I'll always hang with the kids.
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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
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I don't sing in the shower at all, and I don't sing in the shower, either.
