Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin Quotes
People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people.
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I actually applied at Hanna-Barbera to work on 'The Smurfs' when I got laid off for a brief period of time from Disney. I didn't get the job. That was my first introduction to Smurfs.
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People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.
