Miranda Leek Quotes
In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!
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You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
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I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
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Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
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I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
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It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.
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She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.
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In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.
