Kathy Mattea Quotes
I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
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I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.
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I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.
