Tabitha Suzuma Quotes
I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we're all the same.
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
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I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
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I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.
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As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
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By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.
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I hate getting a McDonald's. I'm not a McDonald's person: you just feel crap afterwards.
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At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.
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He was a graduate of West Point, a military academy which turned young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
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I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we're all the same.
