Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.
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Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
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Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
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It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.
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A lot of the reason my look is the way it is, is because it's really easy to put on a sundress every night if I have to perform - or just wear jeans every day and a flannel or something.
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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
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It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
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I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.
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There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
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There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
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I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.
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Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty.
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Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
