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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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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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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The usual bad poem in somebody’s Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one’s teeth.
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Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.
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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.
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Marvel's very secretive, and I'm not hiding anything, I'm not lying; it's just the way they are.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
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On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.
