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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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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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
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The minute you hear the word 'share,' you start thinking Twitter and Facebook. These are the places that people can very quickly share something they've just discovered.
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile.
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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.
