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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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.
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There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
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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.
