Tionne Watkins Quotes
You're always in a blessed position if you have a great success story, especially to be in a position to be able to tell it so people can even understand.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.
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I never let the media dictate my identity, so the fact that I'm a size 14 or a size 2 or a size 8 or a size 4, I kind of rock and roll. It doesn't matter to me.
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When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
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Traveling, I've met Ghanaian people who have seen me in minor stuff, but they see the name Ato Essandoh, and they recognize it as a Ghanaian name. They come up to me and are always so excited. You don't think about it, but they really absorb American culture.
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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You're always in a blessed position if you have a great success story, especially to be in a position to be able to tell it so people can even understand.
