Jessie Mueller Quotes

My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in the car, and we'd go on a lot of long family car trips. It was either strange musicals or James Taylor - or Whitney Houston. It was quite the combination there.

Jessie Mueller

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When I was in the Army, 100 percent of our effort was to really be sharp, and soldiers, we were under live fire all the time.

Jim Inhofe

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As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.

Jenna Fischer

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When you grow up Jewish, you are exposed at a very young age to the phenomenon of anti-Semitism and its extreme manifestation in the Holocaust. I spent a lot of time as a little kid wondering how something like that could happen.

Max Joseph

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Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

Robert Sheckley

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I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

Jeff Beck

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I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, 'What can we know about her education?' It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

Stacy Schiff

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I love how music and fashion are so similar. We need each other.

Rita Ora

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When I make a film, I don't watch a lot of other films. I read a lot; I try to read poems, things that can liberate my human condition, that make me go away... I spend a lot of the time doing nothing, just concentrating on the subject. Sometimes I'll sit in my chair for two or three hours without doing anything.

Rithy Panh

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From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

Russell M. Nelson

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Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.

Mohammed Morsi

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The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

Lorna Luft

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