Toni Braxton Quotes
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.
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I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.
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I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.
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What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
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I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.
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I love my family, I'll do anything for them.
