Watkin Tudor Jones Quotes
Don't come to wild shows if you're just going to talk to your friend about whose shoes you're wearing.
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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I studied Morse code.
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One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.
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My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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As an actor, when you're winning the moment over, there's a truth to your intention. You might laugh at it or you might cry at it, but I think your visceral reaction to it is a reaction to the truth of the moment.
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Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit
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It's a sense of pride, a sense of you set out to get a record deal, and we got that. We set out to get a No. 1 record, and then we got that. Then you say, 'Wow, that was impossible and now even more impossible is to stay No. 1 and stay current and put out new records that people care about,' and we really stuck to that.
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It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
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Don't come to wild shows if you're just going to talk to your friend about whose shoes you're wearing.
