Tyler, The Creator Quotes
I'm like a big 10-year-old when I'm on stage. I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.
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The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
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Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
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I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
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I'm not going to give up salt and sugar because I want to look like Adriana Lima. But I am going to work out to make myself feel good in my own body.
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I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.
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I'm just really excited to get music out there that's not from the show, because it's cool to be able to break out and have my own stuff under my own name.
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If I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.
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Education is the vaccine for violence.
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Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
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I'm like a big 10-year-old when I'm on stage. I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.
