Diana Krall Quotes
I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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I could maybe coach kids' basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.
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When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.
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Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
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I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.
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We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.
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I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.
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Kant ... discovered 'the scandal of reason,' that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about.
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Sex is biological, but gender is mental.
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I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.
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A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught
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If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
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I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.
