Tacitus Quotes
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'
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If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.
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I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
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Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.
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You have to be a little commercial, and that's what I learnt over the years.
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I care deeply about the direction of our country.
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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
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I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.
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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
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I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?
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I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.
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[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.
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I don't think of it so much as the shows I did or the film sets. I mean, sometimes you'll get a nice location, but it's more, 'Who am I meeting on a day-to-day basis?' Often the rehearsals are a lot more fun than the show itself.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.