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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One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.
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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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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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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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We've had no broad-based layoffs at Hearst during my time.
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There's no such thing as being too Southern.
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I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself.
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When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor.
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Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.
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On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.
