Amber Giles (Mija) Quotes
Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing, designing, and more.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
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I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
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I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.
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When I was living on my own, for a footballer it's easy to do the things that you're not supposed to, or not what the sport science team says. For example, if there's a packet of crisps, you're going to eat them. The same with a packet of sweets. Go to bed at a certain time? You're not going to if you're on your own.
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Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.
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Stephen Sondheim is calculus for actors. The words are witty and brilliant and profound but complicated.
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I am a gun owner and a hunter and a gun rights supporter.
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Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing, designing, and more.
