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Sharon Van Etten Quotes

I will entertain things that are entertaining and sound interesting and challenge me. But acting just doesn't come second-nature to me.

Sharon Van Etten

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 26, 1981

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Challenge Me Interesting Acting Will

I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.

I Am Looking Meaning Always Means

I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.

Melanie Griffith

Myself Go Movies Watch Like Unless

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

Change Vision Time People Strategy

On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here.

Robbie Williams

Success Me Famous America Seriously

Nobody would have me in their laboratory for five minutes. I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery. I'm better at making it possible for other people.

People Me Better Nobody Possible Up

I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music.

Music Time Me Think Chill Hard

My whole life, I've been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it's an amazing thing.

Life Time Amazing Seeing Watching

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

Christina Ricci

Adolescence Through Braces Awkward

I was a huge horror fan, especially in my teenage years. Back then, there were a lot of Italian horror movies - some zombie, some just really strange movies that made no sense. I was really into shock and gore.

Back Movies Strange Horror No Sense

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

Great Me Been Part Parts Lots

If there's anything about longevity in television, it's about knowing what to take and what to turn down, and what to stop.

Television Down Stop Knowing Turn

William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan, and Mary Lavin, another Irish writer. There were a lot of writers that I found in 'The New Yorker' in the Fifties who wrote about the same type of material I did - about emotions and places.

Think American Emotions New Irish

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