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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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.
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Acting in something that I'm directing... I'm really enjoying it because, if for no other reason, that particular acting is like reading my mind on every single take. It's kind of efficient, for better or worse.
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I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic illusion of moral excellence. Not that I don't want to be morally excellent but my faith isn't in the idea that I'm more moral than anybody else. My faith is in the idea that God and His love are greater than whatever sins any of us commit.
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Ooh, how'm I gonna get over you? I'll be alright Just not tonight But someday
