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You want to have a feeling when you sing that you just love singing; you love the feeling of singing, and you love this feeling of this voice coming out of your body into this world. It's about really getting that most beautiful, pure, centered tone, thinking about the story of each song and the lyrics, and connecting your own life to that story.

Gretchen Parlato

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LifeLoveBeautifulSingingSong

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Johann Georg Hamann

WeaknessFlawsReasonEverythingSee

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

Stacy Schiff

WomanSmartRichEnoughPowerful

A lot of people start by learning other people's songs, but the idea of singing someone else's music didn't excite me. I just wanted to write my own. It was really bad to begin with. It's improved slightly since.

Shura

LearningMusicPeopleSingingStart

The social media bit is really about documenting process. I like the dialogue if it's constructive, but I'm now at a crossroads. I've accumulated a lot of followers, and it's great, but I'm also at that teetering point where people are feeling themselves a little too much, commenting a little too much.

Toyin Odutola

GreatSocial MediaPeopleMediaNow

We value doing things grassroots, even at this level. That means no real high ticket prices or meet-and-greets and all that kind of stuff.

Mike McCready

ValueDoingKindRealHighLevel

Singles have goals, responsibilities, deadlines, events, and friends that occupy their time, as well they should. Nonetheless, before any goals are achieved, responsibilities are fulfilled, deadlines are met, events are attended or friends are visited, God's purpose should be accomplished.

Monica Johnson

GoalsGodTimePurposeFriendsWell

As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.

Louis Farrakhan

ControlDirectionAmericaResult

I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.

Jason Mewes

WritingAttentionPay AttentionPay

My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then... never judge.

Chris Crutcher

LifeEyesMeJudgeYouLesson

I once spoke to 9,000 people, but they managed to fit them all into a structure that resembled a Zeppelin hangar, so it was a contained space in which whatever laughter I generated could ricochet and hang around for a bit, encouraging others to join in.

Christopher Buckley

SpaceLaughterPeopleOthersHang

I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.

Clifton Collins, Jr.

ChildPeopleMeGrowEnvironmentUp

Being able to evolve great franchises over time is the foundation of world-class entertainment companies.

Bobby Kotick

GreatTimeFoundationEntertainment

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