Jill Sobule Quotes

I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me because I am totally appreciative, and I like my fans! They seem to have the same interests as me. They are kind of nerdy and cool - and have good taste, obviously.

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • World
  • Child
  • Touring

• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • You
  • Mean

• The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Good
  • Security

• 'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Grace
  • Shot
  • Even

• What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Nice

• 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Dog
  • Wall
  • Voice

• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Today
  • Same
  • Saying

• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Want
  • Really
  • Mayor

• I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Up
  • Different
  • City

• Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Good
  • Jealous
  • Pure

• I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Play
  • Thing
  • Inspiring

• He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Good
  • Future
  • Present

• I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.

  

  Flume
  • Real
  • Successful
  • Pressure

• I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.

  

  Kat Graham
  • World
  • Different
  • Own

• A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Years

• I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

  

  Youssef Ziedan
  • Knowledge
  • Religious
  • Analyze

• As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • Career
  • Past
  • Frustration

• I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good.

  

  Cynthia Payne
  • Good

• One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.

  

  Mary Quant

• Christ, who came meek and mild to save us from pain and suffering, was the One who talked more about hell than any other person in Scripture.

  

  D. James Kennedy
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Scripture

• I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.

  

  Chip Esten
  • Music
  • College
  • Band

• I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me because I am totally appreciative, and I like my fans! They seem to have the same interests as me. They are kind of nerdy and cool - and have good taste, obviously.

  

  Jill Sobule
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