Gabrielle Bernstein Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!
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That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.
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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
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Neither am I on an extreme diet nor am I on an extreme workout.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
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I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is a composer, Paul Moravec, and a few years ago, Paul and I were at lunch, and I said to him, "you really have to write an opera." So, he says very casually to me, "I'll do it if you write the libretto." Well, little did I know that the within a couple of years we would end up getting a commission from the Santa Fe Opera to write an opera together, "The Letter," which turned out to be the most successful commissioned opera in the history of the Santa Fe Opera.
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If you try to force yourself into change, then change will never stick.
