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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There are parts of a heart that never heal once they're broken. There is no glue that will hold.
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Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
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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.
