Donna Lynne Champlin Quotes
The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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My family has artists, but they are all working artists. They are not movie stars. They don't get paid. I really respect that blue-collared ideology where they're just trying to make a living.
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I have always loved the wild places between the Sierra Nevada range and the Rocky Mountains. The east face of the Sierra Nevada is steep and largely unknown, a wonderful setting.
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I'm not stupid. I know on paper I'm the B-side of this fight. Canelo's the big name.
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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.
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The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.
