Allen Toussaint Quotes
I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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London 2012 was the biggest thing I will probably ever do, but I didn't realise it at the time!
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't changed for hundreds of thousands of years wakes up, and carries on as if the daylight and the humans and the changes to the landscape have all been an illusion.
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'When people decide that a certain way of faith is destined and inevitable, hatred and intolerance follow. Instead of saying, 'The Light is within you, choose the Light,' the message becomes 'Agree with our version of history or we'll kill you.'
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Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
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It is fear that drives the hippies to seek the warmth, the protection, the safety of a herd. When they speak of merging themselves into a 'greater whole,' it is their fear that they hope to drown in the undemanding waves of unfastidious human bodies - and what they hope to fish out of that pool is the momentary illusion of an unearned personal significance.
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As a rule each action of an ordinary person is motivated by a solitary aim serving a solitary purpose; it can hit only one target at a time and bring about one specific result. But with the Avatar, He being the Centre of each one, any single action of His on the gross plane brings about a network of diverse results for people and objects everywhere.
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I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.
