Jane Siberry Quotes
We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love being Jewish in L.A.; it feels really normal. The culture seems to be integrated into Hollywood. Everyone uses Yiddish words like 'schlep' and 'schmooze.' That's what I love about New York, too.
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I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.
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In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is - I will form good habits and become their slave.
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You win a world title, you beat the best guys in the world, and a lot of these fans are kind of misconstrued about who are the best fighters in the world.
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I'm reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I've done it and done it well, so unless something comes along that I feel has the potential to do something even more interesting, it seems a shame to sort of re-live something in half-measures.
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We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.
