- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Way Quotes
Quotes on finding your own way.
These quotes describe the 'way' things really work - a blunt take on how managers actually get ahead in their careers, and a tongue-in-cheek trick for looking fit without the work. Related reading includes Best Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.
- Limited
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am for feminism. I stand up for women standing up for themselves in the same way I stand up for being black.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, 'Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.'
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good thing about Twitter is that there's not so much of a wall between you and your fan base. They can interact with you, and it makes them more endeared to you when you interact with them. It's really fun in that way.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists - 'goff' with a double f - always seemed to me to be about tacky, harum-scarum horror, and I find that anything but scary. That wasn't what we were about at all.
- Psycho
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way, I was very drawn to tension within cinema. Hitchcock was my other early obsession - 'Psycho' and its score. So there was the sense of trying to create an atmosphere: how a sound resonates and makes an effect.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was the coolest thing about 'Baby Got Back.' The establishment didn't embrace the song, which is what kept me from being the next pop guy to fizzle out and get laughed at, get dissed on TV. That helped save me. The fact that MTV banned the record made the record, in a weird way.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020