Tones and I (Toni Watson) Quotes
I worked in retail for a bit and then I busked for two years. As soon as I started, I thought, 'I'll do busking until I'm 50 because this is the best job in the world.'
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
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I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.
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There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.
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When I create a TV show, it's so that I can write it. I'm not an empire builder; my writing staff is usually a combination of two kinds of people - experts in the world the show is set in, and young writers who will not be unhappy if they're not writing scripts.
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I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
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The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
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Because my career has gone so fast, I haven't been able to become confident.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.
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I worked in retail for a bit and then I busked for two years. As soon as I started, I thought, 'I'll do busking until I'm 50 because this is the best job in the world.'
