Sara Bareilles Quotes

I don't want to fake anybody out and make them think I'm a great actress.

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• He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Work
  • Short
  • Tall

• We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Career
  • Media

• I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Beautiful
  • Thought
  • Beauty

• When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • School
  • Thing
  • Athletics

• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Psycho

• I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Deep

• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Desire
  • Achievement

• I have the necessary lack of tact.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Necessary
  • Lack
  • Tact

• The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Family
  • Stability
  • Promotion

• I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Women
  • Reason
  • Songs

• I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Home
  • Kids

• I've failed once or twice real big, independent.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Real
  • Independent
  • Big

• Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Live
  • Money
  • Job

• Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Believe
  • Pretty

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

  

  Javier Camara
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Die

• I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People
  • Country
  • Paris

• I have restaurants, bookshops... but it's not an empire, more... a puzzle. If it were an empire, all my restaurants would be the same.

  

  Alain Ducasse

• I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Kids
  • You
  • Know

• I don't want to fake anybody out and make them think I'm a great actress.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Great
  • Fake