Leighton Meester Quotes

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

Leighton Meester

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• I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Work
  • Long
  • Rage

• I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Amazing
  • Never
  • Jewelry

• I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Music
  • Real
  • High

• I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Career
  • Never

• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Me
  • Try
  • Escape

• To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Business
  • True

• I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • History
  • True
  • Soul

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • Woman

• The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Die
  • Win
  • Hunger

• The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Work
  • Party
  • Politics

• One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Impact

• I never knew that I would be performing on talk shows with Sia.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Never
  • Talk
  • Performing

• Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.

  

  Marguerite Gardiner
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Regret

• America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Think
  • Books

• 'The Red Era' is for everybody. Every gay, every fluid, every black, every white.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Black
  • Gay
  • Red

• Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

  

  Leighton Meester
  • Work
  • Music
  • Amazing