Sara Bareilles Quotes
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In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
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When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
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In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.
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Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
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My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.
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The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.
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When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was the WB. My age was perfect for it, but I just never came across as a youngster. I had to grow into my age in order to start working, and by the time I did, it was when things started to get good.
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At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.
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With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.
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Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
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I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr!
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I love the sound and temperament of an upright piano.
