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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Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.
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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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The rhythm is then the life, in the sense in which it can be said to be included within nature.
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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 love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.
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We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.
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I think my strength is in shaping a song - you know, making it feel like it reaches its peaks and valleys, and ends when it should end.
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Ooh, how'm I gonna get over you? I'll be alright Just not tonight But someday
