Julia Kent Quotes
When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?
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People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.
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Nothing makes you try harder than to be told that you are not good enough or that you simply do not have the skills.
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Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.
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When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.
