Vanessa Carlton Quotes
Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.
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I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
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We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.
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The future is trash. Recycling it, re-arranging it. Making it beautiful again.
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I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.
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When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
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I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.
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Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.
