Jackie Evancho Quotes
I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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I like to give people more than their money's worth.
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The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy that I've had experiences that have reminded me that most exciting things might not feel so exciting later, and the most disappointing things might not be so disappointing later, either.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
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My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.
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A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.
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You don't have to be an elected official to be a public servant.
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There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' – you are inhabiting that 'I.'
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He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
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I talk about the NFL Draft on a daily basis because this is the sport I cover - this is the show I do - and I talk about everything that's taking place every single day.
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I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
