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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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
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It's weird to get gifted things as an actress because it usually happens when you've made a movie, and you can finally afford something, and then these fashion labels give it to you for free.
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Many people think that female circumcision only started with the advent of Islam. But as a matter of fact it is well known and widespread in some areas of the world before the Islamic era, including the Arabian peninsula. Mohammad the Prophet tried to oppose this custom since he considered it harmful to the sexual health of the woman.
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The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.
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I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.
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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.
