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I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety. ↗

I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it. ↗

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty. ↗

— Jewel

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Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire. ↗

— Jewel

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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

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Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints. ↗

— Norman Jewison

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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them. ↗

— Ma Jian

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China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it. ↗

— Ma Jian

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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. ↗

— Ma Jian

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One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. ↗

— Penn Jillette

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