“When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.”
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“The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people: people who can't read a note of music, people who have incredible classical skills, blues and jazz musicians, pop artists, visual artists, dancers and actors. Learn from people who are creative in a different way to you and you'll keep evolving.”
“People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that.”
“There's a lot of stuff that happened to me when I was kinda young. Like when I was just 12, or 13 or so. It might really shock some people. It's an interesting part of my life, I hope it's in the book, I didn't check whether they put it in or not.”
“People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.”
“I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.”
“Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.”
“When you stop caring about something, then other people have to decide whether or not they genuinely care about you, or not.”
“I tend to enjoy proving people wrong.”
“When we think we know people inside out and we think we know what's best for them we should try to remember we don't even know what's best for ourselves.”
“What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
“Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.”
“The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.”
“One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.”
“We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.”
“In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.”
“Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.”
“There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.”
“Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.”
“Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.”