Sara Bareilles Quotes
I wasn't Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson. I wasn't Tori Amos or Norah Jones. Nobody knew what to do with me.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.
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I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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It's always exciting to see different cities I love, and go on tour buses. It's so much fun to travel. My favorite part is being able to perform live in front of all these amazing people; being able to connect with them and seeing their reaction makes me feel very special.
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.
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I really liked the script of 'Alone.' I thought there were a lot unexpected things in the film, which I would want to watch as a viewer. I did not think like I was doing a horror film; I did not think in terms of genre. I decided on the basis of the script.
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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
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People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.
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Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.
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Memory is your image of perfection.
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Maybe the universe doesn’t approve of places like New York.
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You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.
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The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television.
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The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
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I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.
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I was one of those kids who always wrote.
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Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.
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I wasn't Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson. I wasn't Tori Amos or Norah Jones. Nobody knew what to do with me.
