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.
Quotes to Explore
-
After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
-
Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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!
-
Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
-
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
-
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
-
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.
-
In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
-
Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
-
The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
-
Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
-
It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.
-
The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
-
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.
