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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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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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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Look: the day I've made a movie that I think is really good, I hope I say it out loud so somebody can say, 'Then you probably made the worst movie of your entire career.'
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.
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I have found a love for acting, but I also would like to live abroad for awhile or definitely go to college someday.
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If you want to live, you have to face your fears.
