Crystal Bowersox Quotes
I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.
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I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.
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Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman.
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If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
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I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.
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I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.
