Allen Toussaint Quotes
Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
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There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I'm like, "I want to go to Mars. This is insane." But I can't go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope.
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The great thing about doing art shows is you get to meet the people who are interested in your art, and I think that when you're purchasing a piece of art it's a tremendous bonus to get to meet the artist because you get a chance to pick their brain a bit and find out first hand what the piece is about for the artist.
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“I think the worst reaction that I could get from someone to my photos is some sort of mediocre, middle-range reaction where they really get nothing from it, and they want to move on to the next thing. I'd rather they be horrified, pissed off at me, extremely disgusted at how bad of an artist I am.”
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
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Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
