Tammin Sursok Quotes
I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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We now know, without any shred of uncertainty, that billions of rands of public resources have been diverted into the pockets of a few.
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The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.
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As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.
