Tamsin Egerton Quotes
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
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In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.
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I think the future takes care of itself.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.
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I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.
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One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
