Taron Egerton Quotes
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.
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The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
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I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
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I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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People love gentle larceny.
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I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that.
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That's the great thing about today, having smartphones to stay in touch and share experiences. Knowing that whilst there may be thousands of miles between you, it's almost like they're there. That's the coolest thing, and that's how I stay in touch with the people that are important to me.
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I was used to having stones in my hands, but I realized now I needed both hands free to get to work… On me.
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and it's my favorite way of figuring an outfit.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
