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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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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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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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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Passion is the motto of all my actions.
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My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
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I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.
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Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.
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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
