Natsuki Takaya Quotes
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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I have fabulous children.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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I never said I was a genius.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
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You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.
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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
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Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.
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Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.
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Just be yourself and you'll be fine...
