Jill Sobule Quotes
I think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
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I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV is that when you think 'Christian,' you think 'goody two shoes' - they have to look a certain way and do certain things - and it's just not true.
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I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
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I think motherhood is just about instinct.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
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I think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.
