James Earl Jones Quotes
When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.
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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.
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Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.
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I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.
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If this just degenerates after a historic election, back into the usual bologna of politics in Washington and pettiness in Washington, then the American people I believe will move towards a third party in a massive way.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
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Because I'm a good girl, I tend to fall for the bad boy persona, and it ends up biting me in the butt. They end up not knowing how to treat me, and I end up completely devastated.
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When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.
