"The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop."

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Source : "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

Jeanine Tesori

#Badass Quotes #People Quotes #Brave Quotes

“Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that, when I grew up, I would be an artist of some kind. The lovely feeling of my pencil touching paper, a crayon making a star shape in my sketchbook, or my brush dipping into bright and colorful paints â€” these things affect me as joyfully today as they did all those years ago.”
“[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1964). “Claremont essays”
“From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.”
“If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.”
“Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!”

Source : FaceBook post by Jamie McCall from Jan 23, 2013
“Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential”
“I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments.”
“I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000 years-if we don't destroy ourselves in the meantime. It's possible that 50 years from now we're going to end up out of this solar system, batting around the universe, at least within our galaxy, investigating other stars and other systems.”

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