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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I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.
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My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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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.
