Tionne Watkins Quotes
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion of this event will be made by the image and by the text, but still by word of mouth.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
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While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.
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I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.
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I live in the 20th century. I have copper rivets on my jeans.
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I try to live my life to the best, but I just always preach that you should just work hard and do your best.
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I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?
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If you want to live, you have to face your fears.
