Toyah Willcox Quotes

Toyah Willcox

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 18, 1958

My sleep pattern got disrupted around the time I was taking my O-levels, but in those days nobody really addressed things like that in children.

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If my 20s were a time when the way I looked was my calling card, then it feels as though my 60s will be a reinvention.

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If science can help us have the same quality of life we enjoyed when we were much younger, we should grasp it with both hands.

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I've lived with my dyslexia and gone on to have a successful recording career, but academically I never had a chance in hell because I didn't fall into that bracket.

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I think very fast and visually and I have to write down an idea right away or it will be lost forever.

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I have a habit of needing cake or chocolate when I get an energy dip around 4 P.M. I wish I could stop.

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Live to live. Don't live to die. And never stop learning.

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I want a state funeral with bells ringing across the land! Then I'd love the congregation to do the hokey cokey and for can-can girls to dance down the aisle. I've already bought the plot in Worcestershire next to my parents.

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I think people need reassurance that there is an afterlife. That's perfectly understandable.

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I believe in the paranormal and I accept it but I don't change my life around it. I'm not an avid follower, as it were. I am open-minded.

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Not sleeping is a problem when you get older. Not only is it linked to weight gain but the whole point of sleep is it allows your body to heal and replenish itself which is vital for good health.

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I love my work and that's the only thing I think about.

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My mother never slept.

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I've never lived with a 'be careful' philosophy.

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You either decide to age gracefully or not to age. I'm definitely the latter.

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I'd like young people to seek my advice, and trust that the decades I have lived through have added to my abilities to be a valuable contributor to the workplace and society.

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I have experienced ageism and sexism. In my 20s, I was told by a camera lighting man I needed plastic surgery. In my 30s I was constantly told I needed to lose weight.

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Women of all ages need to be present in the media to instill girls and young women with self-confidence about their futures. And women of my age need healthy role models. Otherwise, how can we build the future dreams we still deserve to have?

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In my experience, women are conditioned to expect and accept that life will not only let them down, but they themselves will be the reason for their own downfall in the fullness of time.

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One man is quite enough for me, I'd find three exhausting!

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