Sara Bareilles Quotes
I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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I love to shop at Macy's. It has a huge Guess section and lots of Jessica Simpson stuff.
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Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.
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I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
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It has been most rewarding to work in St. Louis, California, and New York and watch the people there grow and be promoted and go off to other opportunities and positions of responsibility.
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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
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Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
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I'm actually a hippy in real life. I had three dreadlocks on the back of my head once. They were spawning.
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People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
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Why, one wonders, does lightning strike in one place rather than another?
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I kind of like being depressed.
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I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.
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The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.
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I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.
