Talulah Riley Quotes
My parents used to call me 'The Little Frog,' because whenever they asked how I knew something, I'd say 'read it,' which sounds a bit like a frog croak.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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My parents used to call me 'The Little Frog,' because whenever they asked how I knew something, I'd say 'read it,' which sounds a bit like a frog croak.
