James Mercer Quotes
I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.
James Mercer
Broken Bells
Quotes to Explore
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
Patina Miller
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
Candace Parker
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
Kate Hudson
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
J. R. Smith
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
Hannah Arendt
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
Jack Markell
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
Earl Nightingale
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
K. D. Lang
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
Kate Grenville
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
Octavia E. Butler
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
Rafael Nadal
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Personally, I just tease people a lot.
Alex Meraz
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Music goes beyond nationalities - it's a language which you can understand in any country.
Andris Nelsons
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With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation', it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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I am astounded at my age with a 20-year-old daughter to discover that kids of her generation don't want to watch black and white movies. I understand that they gave up on silent films, but black and white? So, now movies have to be taught in academia because people don't know how to watch them, they don't know how to appreciate them.
Gary Giddins
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I don't have a preferred religion - I'd have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as I've grown into my own man, I don't attach myself to a religion - 100 per cent, I have faith. Then it's locking into what suits me.
Anthony Joshua
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I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.
James Mercer
Broken Bells
