Jeffrey Tate Quotes
On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
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I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
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Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.
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I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.
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The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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I'm a beauty guru, I just love all of that stuff. We have a makeup artist for 'Dance Moms' that touches us up and stuff, but I love doing my own makeup; sometimes I do my friends', too. My favorite is doing eye shadow and eyeliner.
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For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
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Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.
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I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us
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Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.
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'Tax Law is like the world's biggest chess game with all sorts of weird conundrums about ethics and civics and consent of the governed built in. For me, it's a bit like math. I have no talent for it but find it still erotically interesting.'
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It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too.
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A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the bad guys die and only those. If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous.
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I don't know if there was even a hundred million dollars in the whole country!
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On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.
