M. Leighton Quotes
Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.
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There will be time enough some day to work less.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.
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Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's.
