Bryson Tiller Quotes
I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement unless I demo the songs.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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I'm a fast writer.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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A 'Cosmo' cover has been my dream my entire life. I cried when I found out.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
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Admitting he never had any religion, he calls a friend his 'god' and the love of other people, God's spirit.
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These types of events are Israel’s nightmare, not because they are violent, but precisely because they are not.
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The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured- especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Take away the right to say 'fuck' and you take away the right to say 'fuck the government.'
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Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, 'I'm a Liar,' right there on the dust jacket.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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My mom was born before women had the vote in general elections in England.
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Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just hasn't been paying attention.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
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I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.
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If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special.
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I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement unless I demo the songs.
