Jennifer Damiano Quotes
I was pretty new to the Broadway world once I began working in it. I hadn't really grown up being too aware of that many shows or that many actors in shows. I was always obsessed with Judy Garland, though.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.
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I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.
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Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.
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I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which TV shows have the highest ratings, how many friends they have on Facebook, and it’s funny. The best shows often have low ratings and it is impossible to have thousands of real friends.
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I was pretty new to the Broadway world once I began working in it. I hadn't really grown up being too aware of that many shows or that many actors in shows. I was always obsessed with Judy Garland, though.
