Esther Renay Dean (Ester Dean) Quotes
I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied. People are like, "You've got all these number ones!" "Yeah...what else?" It all translates into money, and that's how people think of being successful, but my success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.
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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.
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Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title.
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No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.
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Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer, decentralized form of money, as durable as the Internet itself. Remember, the Internet - or DARPA, as it was originally called - was created as a fail-safe, global network with no 'single point of failure.' If one part goes down, data takes another route, and nothing is lost.
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I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in 'Hairspray.'
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I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied. People are like, "You've got all these number ones!" "Yeah...what else?" It all translates into money, and that's how people think of being successful, but my success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.
