Alma Gluck Quotes
One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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I'm not a control freak.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
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I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
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The score, which comes often quite later in a film, can help reinvigorate your emotional engagement with it.
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One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.
