Jacob Whitesides Quotes
I never really wanted to be a singer, because I was a super-shy kid. Singing made me feel awkward, and I was really insecure.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern.
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
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I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.
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I never really wanted to be a singer, because I was a super-shy kid. Singing made me feel awkward, and I was really insecure.
