Sydney Wayser (CLARA-NOVA) Quotes

The industry will push you around and tug at you. They’ll tell you what you should do and who you should sound like. The truth is the music industry needs you. You are the artist. You create a story out of thin air. That is a gift. Keep it close and keep it flexible. Use it everyday.

Sydney Wayser

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• As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Pride
  • Humility

• Modesty is my best quality.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Best
  • Quality
  • Modesty

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Best

• A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Trying
  • Food
  • Famous

• I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.

  

  Mako
  • School
  • America
  • Weird

• I don't mind playing spoiler.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Mind
  • Playing

• Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Children
  • Culture
  • Law

• The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Fashion
  • Always
  • Goal

• Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

  

  Vin Scully
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Resistance
  • Beat
  • Teeth

• To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Soul

• I guess I was phenomenally lucky that I was introduced to dancing because I'm suited to it. It would be very weird if you had this natural ability for something and you never discovered it. It must happen all the time.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Time
  • Weird
  • Lucky

• I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.

  

  Maeve Binchy

• Having been connected with industry during my entire life, it seems eminently proper that I should turn back, in part, the proceeds of that activity with the hope of promoting a broader as well as a better understanding of the economic principles and national policies which have characterized American enterprise down through the years.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • Life
  • American
  • Hope

• Neither fairness nor justice, neither reality nor humanity can be simulated or manipulated by wires or remote controls.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Reality
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Hair

• Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it's never like an assault.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Song

• When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • Music
  • Home
  • Songs

• I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Hardworking
  • Diligent

• The industry will push you around and tug at you. They’ll tell you what you should do and who you should sound like. The truth is the music industry needs you. You are the artist. You create a story out of thin air. That is a gift. Keep it close and keep it flexible. Use it everyday.

  

  Sydney Wayser
  • Music
  • Create
  • Gift