Tionne Watkins Quotes
Bell Biv Devoe, back in the day, we used to look up to them. They had incredible style back then, so we wanted to be like them.
Quotes to Explore
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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I write novels and other things.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.
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Growing up, we used to watch a lot of 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' and wear hand-me-down jeans and jumpers. I wasn't really one for dresses.
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Bell Biv Devoe, back in the day, we used to look up to them. They had incredible style back then, so we wanted to be like them.
