Jamie Lawson Quotes
Skype is a wonderful invention. It might be my favorite thing because I get to see my family and the ones that you love.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.
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Isil poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East - including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the United States.
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I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and perhaps leave some reputation behind me. What more could I ask? The events in which I am involved will probably save me from the troubles of old age. I shall die in full possession of my faculties, and that is another advantage that I should count among those that I have enjoyed. If I have any distressing thoughts, it is of not having done more for my family; to be unable to give either to them or to you any token of my affection and my gratitude is to be poor indeed.
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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Politicians should not get involved in the detail of clinical criteria and shouldn't be arguing with professors and consultants over whether there is one standard deviation or two standard deviations.
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Skype is a wonderful invention. It might be my favorite thing because I get to see my family and the ones that you love.
