Allen Toussaint Quotes
Wow. Good heavens. I'm getting drenched just looking at these pictures. The water is whipping my body.
Quotes to Explore
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
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If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
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My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.
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Sometimes I think change is a good thing.
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I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
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Wow. Good heavens. I'm getting drenched just looking at these pictures. The water is whipping my body.
