Jill Sobule Quotes
I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
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Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced - that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.
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After PepsiCo, I do want to go to Washington. I want to give back.
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Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
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We're all about exploring new sounds, so we don't have any limits whatsoever about how we go about finding them. We do tend to sample human vocals or sample sounds, which allows you to create your own sound. That's not our only way obviously, but that's a way you can use a sound no one's used before; it's not a sound in the synth. There's a lot of that going on in our songs in general.
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I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.
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I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.
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I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.
