Patty Griffin Quotes

I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being totally intimidated at the prospect of singing with Mavis, I was honored. I don't really have much of a background in gospel music.

Patty Griffin

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I never choose jobs because of what I think I should do. I want to feel something. And with 'Beast,' it was very much like that.

Jessie Buckley

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When you're in comedy, people always come up and say, 'Oh, it must be so hard.' It really isn't hard unless you're not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

Jerry Seinfeld

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I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

Andrew Garfield

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Being 'ethnically ambiguous', as I was pegged in the industry, meant I could audition for virtually any role. Morphing from Latina when I was dressed in red, to African American when in mustard yellow, my closet filled with fashionable frocks to make me look as racially varied as an Eighties Benetton poster.

Meghan Markle

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I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

Robert MacNeil

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I had the greatest time of my life in England for a couple of years, and Robert Farnon made some of the best music I've ever been around.

Tony Bennett

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The idea of having proper qualifications had been very much ingrained in me. My father had a steady job for the Potato Marketing Board, and the family emphasis was on getting to university.

Roger Taylor

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I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

Rob Lowe

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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Michel de Montaigne

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I have children, so I'm constantly worrying about the world they are going to inherit.

Dennis Haysbert

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I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.

Christian Bale

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Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

Winona Ryder

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