Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Instrumental music can be about anything. It's about a mood, and I usually title my instrumental songs long after they're written. Sometimes I figure out the titles when I'm doing the CD package, and that's very common for a lot of people who write instrumental music.

Jenny Scheinman

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There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

John Otway

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I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney.

John Krasinski

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I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

Ani DiFranco

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I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.

Steve Coogan

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Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

Sophie Hunger

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Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

Travis Bradberry

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I stay very much undercover and behind the scenes - most places I go, people don't know how important I am. But I will admit that my favorite piece of clothing to wear out is an old T-shirt from a Boston tour that does have a Boston logo. But that doesn't change anything.

Tom Scholz

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Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.

Tom Frieden

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I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

Roddy Doyle

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The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

Judd Nelson

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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Jean de la Bruyere

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