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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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
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I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.
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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.
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Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think thats all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it.
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Ooh, how'm I gonna get over you? I'll be alright Just not tonight But someday
