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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...it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.
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In TV, kid roles are like this: You're either in a couple minutes of an episode playing somebody's kid, or you get in these procedurals where you're crying or you're playing a witness or you're playing a crazy person. Every once in a while you get a big guest star role, but there's a formula to those TV shows.
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All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms.
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People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which to paint their experience, not only for others, but for themselves as well.
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My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
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Ooh, how'm I gonna get over you? I'll be alright Just not tonight But someday
