Baratunde Thurston Quotes
Remember something about attention. Yes, it’s possible to buy, grab, or even steal it. But it’s far better to earn it.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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I think twerking is overrated.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.
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People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.
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At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was always in a little bit of a rush to be an adult.
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I started my business with my best friend from high school.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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Remember something about attention. Yes, it’s possible to buy, grab, or even steal it. But it’s far better to earn it.
