Santi White (Santigold) Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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I've been very lucky.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
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We are aggressively trying to get the word out to parents about how they can tap into this resource.
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The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.
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Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.
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I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.
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Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
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Anyway, I'd get bored with just doing music!
