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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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 do think one should have clean feet.
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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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I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.
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I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break.
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I think Jughead is a pretty trustworthy character - not only a narrator. I think he might be selfish, but he's obviously selfish, and that is comforting to me. I also think he has a really strong moral fiber and a propensity for good, and he tries to cultivate that in other people.
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I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.
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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.
