Diana Krall Quotes
It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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Theater dates very quickly.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.
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I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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I won't do a role which children in my family cannot look up to.
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
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Most computers today have built in backup software.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.
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I don't consider myself as a glamour diva. If you get to know me, you will see that I am so dorky and weird.
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Sometimes, the supposedly weak groups turn out to be very difficult, and the supposedly strong ones are easier to take control of.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.
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A normal recession disrupts people's lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on what looks to be a semi-permanent basis.
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My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.
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It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.
