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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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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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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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
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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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At first I was supposed to be the funny central figure, ... But with that format the show might have lasted about four weeks. The way it worked out is, the other people say the funny lines and my character looks on as an observer.
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I love going swimming. I spent a lot of time in North London in summer going to Hampstead Heath and swimming in the ponds there. It's so beautiful; we're so lucky to have that in London.
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I never really thought of myself as a beefcake kind of guy.
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The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it.
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I'll tell you where my heart is - my heart is just to try to give back.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
