Sara Bareilles Quotes
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.
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I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.
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I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
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Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
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… we're going to tell how the cow ate the cabbage.
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I aroused Judith’s contempt by asking what good all this was likely to do to mankind? There is no question that annoys your true scientist more.
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Being a wife-mother and doing a job, it's the toughest damn thing in the world. But we want it.
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I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.
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All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
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I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.
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My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.
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'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.
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Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.
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I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'
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Ooh, how'm I gonna get over you? I'll be alright Just not tonight But someday
