Mickey Guyton Quotes
Choosing my own songs wasn't available to me. Any time I turned in a song, it was dissected more than others'. ... There's nobody else like me in this space, so anytime they tried to compare me to somebody, they couldn't quite put their finger on it.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.
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I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
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There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to make all the sketches and I can see the vision of the movie and then I start my job.
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The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.
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I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
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I was not always a man of woe.
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In a sense, I wrote the book about Jesus that I wanted to read.
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The youngest boy in an Indian family has a good life. Growing up in a matriarchal family where my Indian mom's culture was dominant, I experienced this first hand.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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I had a little studio and I was there, making hip-hop. I knew Florence and she was next door in these studios where her boyfriend at the time was getting his guitar fixed. I said to her: “do you want to make a song today?” and she said “why not?” so we started working together.
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When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.
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Choosing my own songs wasn't available to me. Any time I turned in a song, it was dissected more than others'. ... There's nobody else like me in this space, so anytime they tried to compare me to somebody, they couldn't quite put their finger on it.
