Sara Bareilles Quotes
I don't care For your fairytales You're so worried about the maiden Oh, you know she's only waiting on the next best thing
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
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I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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I always go to sleep on the plane. Then I try and stay up whenever I get where I'm going to and get straight into the time zone I'm in.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
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I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.
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We have to invest in developing Villa Park, allowing us to generate our own revenue streams. At the same time, of course, there's a balance between growing long-term and getting the instant results we all crave as fans.
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If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
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In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
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I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
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I don't care For your fairytales You're so worried about the maiden Oh, you know she's only waiting on the next best thing
