Cheryl James Quotes
I didn't want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life. I was bulimic and needed to heal.
Quotes to Explore
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
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A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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But I want to do good work, after this series.
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My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.
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What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.
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What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.
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A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.
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There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.
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The idea that the largest banks in the world would simultaneously fail, need government support, government guarantees, and/or government intervention to survive was not in my range of realistic scenarios.
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I didn't want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life. I was bulimic and needed to heal.
