Sara Bareilles Quotes
With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with writing pop music. The main point is to tell the story. You just have to make sure the character's voice is strong and the storytelling is strong.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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I was attracted to people who were funny because I wanted to be in that world.
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I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.
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I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
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There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.
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I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.
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With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with writing pop music. The main point is to tell the story. You just have to make sure the character's voice is strong and the storytelling is strong.
