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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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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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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Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall
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Seeing me in love is a constant state: there are no questions, as the answer is simply there.
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That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
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Rod's always been a keen sportsman, so he didn't live as excessive a life as some musicians.
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If you want to live, you have to face your fears.
