Jamie Cullum Quotes
I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano in his kitchen; he had a grand piano in his kitchen. And I thought, 'Well, if Tom Waits has one, then I must.'
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
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I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.
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One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
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I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want.
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I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano in his kitchen; he had a grand piano in his kitchen. And I thought, 'Well, if Tom Waits has one, then I must.'
