Bibi Bourelly Quotes
A lot of things change when one is granted success: random people pop up, and a lot of the adjustments are rough. My way of coping with them is through focusing on the things that I have accomplished and the things that are yet to come.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.
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The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
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If you wanna make money in music, you're better off being on the business end of it a lot of the time. And also as a musician, if you do make money, it means you had to bite and scratch and kick the whole way to not get ripped off, because at every corner, there's somebody there waiting to trip you up and take a bigger chunk.
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Everyone works hard for each other, and if we're having an off day, everyone else is there to pick things up.
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I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
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A lot of things change when one is granted success: random people pop up, and a lot of the adjustments are rough. My way of coping with them is through focusing on the things that I have accomplished and the things that are yet to come.
