Sharon Van Etten Quotes

It's not onstage as often anymore, but whenever I got anxious, I used to talk a lot more, and I wouldn't even know what I was saying... it was so bad. If I just talk myself through something, even if it's just talking about nothing, it usually gets me out of it.

Sharon Van Etten

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The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

Jimmy Nail

FameFortuneWholeAddictiveThing

Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations.

Robert Reich

PeopleGrowAmericanLongWayOver

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

Michael Cunningham

BookAdmitWillWriteSecretHonest

Religion has certainly been shoved down my throat.

Michael Douglas

ReligionDownBeenThroatCertainly

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

Robert Vaughn

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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Michel de Montaigne

LifeSoulPurposeLostNowhere

I've learned a lot from my parents.

Mirai Nagasu

ParentsLearnedLot

I went from a nobody to a somebody.

Devon Cajuste

NobodySomebody

Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.

Clayton M. Christensen

SmartEndIgnoreRightEverything

Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.

Brendan I. Koerner

LifeTiredAmericanEarningReturn

One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it and ends up being one of the most rewarding parts of it.

Brendon Urie

MeBetterWantSongwritingUpGet

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

Bob Livingston

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