Tionne Watkins Quotes
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.
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I love hiking, paddle boarding and listening to the Veronicas.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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The numbers are hard to control.
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When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
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I get nervous as hell when it's time for the songs to come out.
