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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Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.
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Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.
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I never felt that I was a leading-man type in high school. I was always the goofy guy who was getting attention from girls who could make them laugh by doing impersonations of, like, 'Saturday Night Live' sketches... I was more James Stewart than James Bond.
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All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.
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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.
