Bars Quotes - Page 35

• I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

  Darren Criss

  Ambitious, Raises, Raising The Bar

  "A Road to Success, Lined With Friends". www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2012.

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• You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

  Emilia Clarke

  Drama, School, Thinking

  "Alfie Allen & Emilia Clarke chat 'Game Of Thrones'". www.digitalspy.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

  Laura Carmichael

  Jobs, Drama, Teaching

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.

  Christopher Cross

  Song, Lines, Lasts

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• I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.

  Don Cheadle

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.

  Julian Casablancas

  Thinking, Pockets, Manhattan

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• That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!

  Roman Coppola

  Design, Creative, Waiting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

  Nick Denton

  Interesting, Stories, Found

  "The Brit dishing the dirt on America" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2008.

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• I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.

  Janet Evanovich

  Book, Shopping, People

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• My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.

  Mem Fox

  Mother, Blow, Doors

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• I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.

  Joan Allen

  Thinking, Giving, Trying

  "The passion project" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2005.

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• In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here.

  Danny Elfman

  Play, Work Out, Pieces

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• I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me.

  America Ferrera

  Growing Up, Mean, Mitzvah

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.

  Anna Faris

  Style, Clubs, Locals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Long

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• There they were sitting at the bar, these two Luscious babes, and they were Siamese twins.

  Steve Goodman

  Two, Quality, Sitting

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• I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.

  Waylon Jennings

  Beer, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Out Of Jail

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• In hell there's a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can't call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.

  Billy Joel

  Home, Phones, Evil

  Song: Blonde Over Blue, Album: River of Dreams, 1993

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• Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Mean, Writing

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• There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Girl, Infidelity, Messages

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• And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

  Elton John

  Night, Men, Light

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• Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.

  Billy Joel

  Night, Order, Law

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• The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.

  Bob Dylan

  Order, Law, Mind

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.

  Lou Reed

  Army, Redneck, Piglet

  Song: Beginning of a Great Adventure, Album: New York

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• He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.

  Elton John

  Religious, Drinking, Angel

  Song: Religion Elton John Bernie Taupin

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