Watkin Tudor Jones Quotes
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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Tax expenditures for middle- and working-class Americans - like the earned income tax credit - aren't thought of as loopholes; they're just thought of as benefits.
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In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
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A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.
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From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.