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"1056 Career Quotes

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

Artists Block Devastating Female
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My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

Base Career Delicious Even
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I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

Funny Girl Meaning Quirky
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I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.
Acoustic Actually Always Like
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I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

Books Culture Essays Figure
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Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

Doing Entrepreneurs Forward Going
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There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

Band Keep Live Substitute
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When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

Did Either Enhanced Influence
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It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

Anywhere Be Great Here
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Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

Across Because Break Clash
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Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

Journalism Community Society Progressive way
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Before finding music, I didn't have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Aspirations Before Finding Had
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Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

Finally Longer Making Music
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I would have volunteered to work at Netscape. It was the center node of this new technology and the commercial ecosystem of the Internet.

Center Commercial Ecosystem Internet
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Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It's actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.

Actually Answer Brute Brute Force
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The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

Actor Another Anything Being
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Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

About Best Careers Energy
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But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

Accomplish Accomplishment Anything Biggest
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Confidence is everything in this business.
Business Confidence Everything
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For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.

Basically Cheese Date Dinner
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I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.

Beginning June Like Sound
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Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

College Coltrane Influence Jazz
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That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

Either Film Love Musical
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I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

Band Every Friday Instrumental
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That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

Balance Daughter Decision Decision-Making
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Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.

Always DollyParton Girl Her
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It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

Comedy Drama Fun Head
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I played a lawyer in a movie, so, many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.

Am Arrested Because Clearly
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My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

Actor Believed Capable Control
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I think traveling as much as we do and being on the road, the craziest thing is probably having our own little tour bus.

Being Bus Craziest Having
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There was something in Nick, becoming the Broadway star that he was and working from the age of 7, being on Broadway for four years, and then doing the music.

Age Becoming Being Broadway
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The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.

Days First Half Including
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So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.

Fun ILove Lessons Lot
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And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.

After Band Crew Diego
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And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.

Airport Asleep Brother Diego
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To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

Bad Good GoodAndBad GoodOnes
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I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

Get Going He Hey
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I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

Artist Been Crossover IThink
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Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

Bus BusDriver Driver Finding
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When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

Ambitious Around Disappointing Enthusiastic
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Waiting makes me restless. When I'm ready, I'm ready.

Makes Me Ready Restless
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I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

Attention AttentionSpan Jump Like
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I love to sing with different people.

Different DifferentPeople ILove Love
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I've never turned my back on country music.

Back Country CountryMusic Music
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It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.

Come Funny Hometown How
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I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.

Country CountryMusic Ever First
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I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

Actress Always Movie MovieStar
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I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

Anthem Breaks City Door
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When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

Business Complain Got Hard
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

Accepted Adult Anything Authors
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