Allen Toussaint Quotes
It was the real thing ... When we were recording, sometimes we'd make a 'human fade' - we would just play softer and softer. We didnt have any overdubbing. When one guy took a solo, the other guys would stand up and snap their fingers and dance around the studio. We were having a wonderful time.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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I travel a lot.
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An unashamedly indecent read. Welsh fans will love it.
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As a kid, on the cotton fields, I had this tune in my head. I hummed it and sang it. It was the same melody as 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' I could never, ever forget it.
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While it may seem scarier in the earlier days, I think ultimately the blockchain creates a safer world.
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I'm feeling pretty fortunate. I've been having lots of lovely auditions and meetings, so I'm savoring the moment.
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It was the real thing ... When we were recording, sometimes we'd make a 'human fade' - we would just play softer and softer. We didnt have any overdubbing. When one guy took a solo, the other guys would stand up and snap their fingers and dance around the studio. We were having a wonderful time.
