Jo Stafford Quotes
I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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I don't read books.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.
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I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Everything I experience influences everything I do.
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I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.
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I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.
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Nothing is more stylish than power.
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Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.
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I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.
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She just took off running to the old Perkins place. He couldn't help turning to watch. She ran as though it was her nature. It reminded him of the flight of wild ducks in the autumn. So smooth. The word 'beautiful' came to his mind, but he shook it away and hurried up to his house.
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I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.
