Tyler Joseph Quotes
Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what you want it to do.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn how to write prose takes a lot of years of practice.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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Hitler rounded up all of the vampires in Europe.
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I have to be natural and not doing anything fake, not lying on social media, in interviews and life.
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Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what you want it to do.
