Sara Bareilles Quotes
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I'm a proud family man.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I get homesick.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.
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I'm mostly a mess, and I hide it pretty well a lot of time.
