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Lara St. John Quotes

Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.

Lara St. John

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: April 15, 1971

Topics

Green American Problem You Cards Us

I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.'

Jerry Weintraub

People Me End You Find Want

I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.

Jess Glynne

Soul Powerful Try Listen Big Used

People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.

Sue Miller

Character Men People Thinking Always

I live in reality, and I know at any moment I could stop getting the phone calls and nobody wants to hear me sing or tell jokes anymore.

Trixie Mattel

Live Moment Me Reality Phone Stop

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

Marya Mannes

Intelligence People Control Emotions

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Care Logic Look See How Takes

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.

Julia Glass

Art Purpose Reality Moral Creation

Unfortunately, I cook for two boys, and they don't care what it looks like on the plate, and neither do I.

Judy Gold

Care Looks Two Cook Plate Like

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

Don Rickles

King Society Kid Jewish Neighborhood

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

Dionne Warwick

Water Woman Man Understand Never

It's very rare for me to come across a script for NYMF that is truly its own animal. That's really what appealed to me about 'Valueville.' I still have my notes from when I first read it.

Donna Lynne Champlin

Animal Me First Rare Own Notes

As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of them combined, even if he played for the 'bad guys!'

Cheech Marin

Loved Bad Play More Watching Even