Tones and I (Toni Watson) Quotes
I'm not into makeup or dresses or typically girly things. But to me, those things don't really define what it is to be a female artist in this industry any more. It's being brave and courageous and true to yourself.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
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In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.
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You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
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I have this strength that comes from knowledge.
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There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?
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I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.
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I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.
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Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.
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I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.
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When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.
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If Bernard Leach didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to produce the pot that he had designed on paper in front of us.
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God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.
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I'm not into makeup or dresses or typically girly things. But to me, those things don't really define what it is to be a female artist in this industry any more. It's being brave and courageous and true to yourself.
