Rufus Wainwright Quotes

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

Rufus Wainwright

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I just never want to be in this situation where I get to set and they're like, 'We rewrote this scene, you're now naked.' I need a little prep work.

Max Greenfield

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I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

Matthew Macfadyen

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Failure was not an option for me.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

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French women famously take care over their appearance, but this wasn't instilled in me as I grew up. I was taught that beauty comes from different places, from the inside and from the outside.

Sonia Rykiel

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Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.

Simon Sinek

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I listen to music a lot on the treadmill - I would test 'Raditude' songs out on the treadmill.

Rivers Cuomo

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In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security.

Russ Carnahan

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I'd love to work with Tweet. She's my favorite singer, and I'd love to do a song with her even though she's out of my league.

Miles Heizer

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Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive.

Julia Holter

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When we blaze trails, which is what Hulu is about, it takes time. That is not for the faint of heart, and we understand that.

Jason Kilar

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The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.

Deborah Tannen

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