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When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good
Alison KraussRead
The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become, because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.
Michael JacksonRead
There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.
Johnny CashRead
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
Arthur MillerRead
Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover thingsIn Marin City it seemed like things were real country. Everything was straightforward. Poverty was straightforward.
Tupac ShakurRead
Kids not only understand [a dark story] but appreciate it … Because in the real world there's fear, and dark things happen no matter how young you are. People lose parents, people lose friends … There's darkness in the world. So I think when kids are talked to in that way, they appreciate it. They're not being given some candy-coated, 'Oh, this is a world where there are no stakes.' I think that actually insults their intelligence.
America FerreraRead
If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
Werner HerzogRead
You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.
Jim CarreyRead
We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.
David FosterRead
This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.
David FosterRead
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude SteinRead
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
Gertrude SteinRead
There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.
Matt DamonRead
We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.
Joyce MeyerRead
My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
Natalie PortmanRead
A real friend does not pick up the bill for an addict’s drugs: he packs the friend off to rehab instead. Today, only those who speak up against Israel’s policies – who denounce the occupation, the blockade, and the war – are the nation’s true friends.
Gideon LevyRead
It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.
Albert EinsteinRead
A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.
Mark TwainRead
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
Oscar WildeRead
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
Samuel JohnsonRead
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.
Marcus AureliusRead

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