Janet Weiss Quotes
A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.
Quotes to Explore
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
Ian McShane
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
Dakota Fanning
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
Yolanda Adams
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
Aaron Neville
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
Rainbow Rowell
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
Rachel Sklar
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
Jack Nicklaus
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
Val Kilmer
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
Ferdinand Marcos
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
T. J. Perkins
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
Warren Bennis
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
Garry Trudeau
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
Tatyana Ali
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
Adam Peaty
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
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Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.
Andrea Riseborough
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I was born with Spina bifida. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out.
John Mellencamp
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I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere
W. S. Merwin
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Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
Laura Mvula
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Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.
Eric Schlosser
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A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.
Janet Weiss