Gretchen Parlato Quotes

It's fun to use all of my range; there are so many different colors and textures that come out, revealing different parts of my voice. I know what my voice is capable of, and I try to fit it to each song, evoke a mood.

Gretchen Parlato

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Ronald Reagan came in - he was a leader. Some of my Democratic friends don't like it when I say that. He had a vision where he wanted to take the country, and things started moving again.

Jim Webb

LeaderVisionMovingFriendsCountry

I cannot accept fraud.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

AcceptFraudCannot

When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.

Jeffrey Kluger

GoodCulturePastNewEverything

Anyone who makes time frames beyond tomorrow probably isn't pushing himself hard enough.

Anand Mahindra

TimeTomorrowEnoughBeyondHard

I have to experience the Nokia products. I'm a major contributor to the design and the quality of the devices. I have a lot of feedback to provide the teams on that. But also I have to carry competitive devices. You have to understand the competition.

Stephen Elop

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One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

Stephen Sondheim

MusicWritingYouWaySitAware

I'm sure all actors have trouble. The guy who always plays the funny guy, he wants to be taken seriously. And there's the action guy who wants to do serious stuff. Everyone's grass is greener.

Jason Momoa

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Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

Douglas Sirk

OpportunityAmericanComedyProject

All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.

Christian Bale

LiveTimeMyselfToughGivingYou

Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

Brit Marling

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I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

Wole Soyinka

MyselfOutJustAccidentReally

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Woody Allen

SayWhyDaysOurNumbered

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