Jessica Simpson Quotes
When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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Cancer is something none of us are prepared to deal with. We're here to help people through the process.
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I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
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If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.
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Every time the liberals pass a bill - I don't care what it involves - they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don't feel there is any way people are going to keep a law unless they can put them in jail.
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I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.
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When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.
