Vanessa Carlton Quotes
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing any beast or man the smallest grief, the slightest pain.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.
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My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?'
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'In Case You Didn't Know' was written in Mexico, actually, on a songwriter's retreat.
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The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
