Essie Summers Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.
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I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.
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The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
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There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.
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I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.
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That's one of the beauties of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim and their work together. They have such a depth to the emotional exploration of the story that they're telling, but there's always a release, and the release is a laugh.
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Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
