Tones and I (Toni Watson) Quotes
There is no necessity in this world that requires you to have an absurd amount of money.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
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And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
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By 25, I was a millionaire.
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Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved.
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To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
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It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
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I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question.
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There is no necessity in this world that requires you to have an absurd amount of money.
