Tionne Watkins Quotes
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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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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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
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When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
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The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
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The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.
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'Creep,' unfortunately, was one of my true stories.
