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Alessia Cara Quotes

I had a fairly regular childhood. I was a pretty boring kid. I didn't do much. I was always thinking, but I didn't really say a lot.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: July 11, 1996

Topics

Childhood Thinking Say Boring Kid

I've been listening to jazzmen, especially saxophonists, since the time of the early Count Basie records, which featured Lester Young. Pres was my first real influence, but the first horn I got was an alto, not a tenor.

Time Listening Influence Early Young

The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.

Music Rain Myself Grandfather Three

Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real.

Joseph Mazzello

Acting Real Seem Make Just Were

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.

Learning Live I Can Salary Way

I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

Life Truth Me World My Life Person

Why aren't we talking about Hillary Clinton getting debate questions ahead of time? That's a pretty valid attempt to influence an election. Somebody giving her the debate questions and the answers of an election.

Time Influence Questions Talking Why

Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully.

Good Great Parents Me Champion You

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Thomas Jefferson

More Right Suffer Mankind Than

I come from a big family of musicians, so I was lucky enough to grow up with guitars all around the house. Even though I didn't really know much at the time, my brother had a Les Paul Goldtop, and my dad always had this Fender or some bizarre Pedulla-Orsini guitar.

Nuno Bettencourt

Family Time Brother Guitar Musicians

I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all around me.

Work People Me Living True Saw

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

Maria Sharapova

Process Loved Design Young Things

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

Fear Sad Losing Suffering Weakness

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