Lauren Alaina Quotes
I don't think that anyone was trying to keep me from writing the first album. It's just when you're on 'American Idol' or a TV show like that, you wanna capitalize on that momentum, and you want to use that to your advantage, obviously, so the best way to do that is to get the music out as fast as possible. And there's no time to create, really.
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
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Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
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Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.
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There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
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I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
Nastassja Kinski
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I am a little old fashioned, and I love to have my scripts printed out. There is something magical about feeling the paper, making notes and page marks.
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Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
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When they say you can't, show them you can.
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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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I don't think that anyone was trying to keep me from writing the first album. It's just when you're on 'American Idol' or a TV show like that, you wanna capitalize on that momentum, and you want to use that to your advantage, obviously, so the best way to do that is to get the music out as fast as possible. And there's no time to create, really.
