Christine Lavin Quotes
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.
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I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure out how you can get to the center and not lose yourself, but still be directed at the same time.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.
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If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.
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Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl.
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Make one day a mono-meal. This means, choose just one fruit and have it as much as you want. Apples, pears, or anything in season are great for mono-meals.
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I always sang in school choirs and went on tours to other countries. I have always loved it. It's a very communal thing, and you really connect with people.
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If life is all subjective, why not be subjectively happy rather than subjectively sad?
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I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.
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I don't end up writing songs in my journals, but I'm sure that my ability to write songs has been helped by how consistently and impulsively I try to get my life into words through the journals.
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I was working at Papa John's full-time. I had just quit my part-time job at UPS. I was there for two years.
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The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.
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Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
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I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There are not very many people who are looking out for you and being in business with you when you're at that stage. And it's not in my nature to think that success as a musician makes you any different from anybody else.
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We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.
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The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.
