Jools Holland Quotes
The piano has disappeared from working-class family life, which is a shame. It's associated with the middle classes now. Everyone in my family sang and played piano, but my parents were delighted and amazed when I became the first professional performer in the family - apart from a clog-dancer way back.Jools Holland
Quotes to Explore
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
Victoria Osteen -
We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
Samantha Power -
My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
Eddie Redmayne -
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King -
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig -
To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
Olivier Megaton
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
Rafael Palmeiro -
I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster -
That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
Wanda Sykes -
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
Zoe Foster Blake -
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
Zac Efron -
Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
Irvine Welsh -
There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
Natalie Imbruglia -
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
Daniel Craig -
You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
Parker Stevenson
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We did 'The Simpsons Movie,' which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that's why there hasn't been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they'll start doing movies.
Matt Groening -
I actually spent a lot of time reading about how professional managers work. And how people build bridges.
Barry Barish -
The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!
Christopher Knight -
The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.
Dee Dee Myers -
The piano has disappeared from working-class family life, which is a shame. It's associated with the middle classes now. Everyone in my family sang and played piano, but my parents were delighted and amazed when I became the first professional performer in the family - apart from a clog-dancer way back.
Jools Holland