Morna Anne Murray (Anne Murray) Quotes
I`ve been called just about everything, but I`ve always thought of myself as just a singer.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
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People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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Very rich.
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Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.
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From the development of the textile loom two centuries ago to today's Internet, output per hour has increased fifty fold.
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To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.
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We cannot fathom why people would stand across the street, easily a hundred feet away, when they could be so close, near us. ‘Suckers.’ I tell Toph, thumbing toward those watching from so far away. It is important, I feel, that the boy knows what suckers look like.'
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The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.
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My teachers always said, "You're very talented, but don't set your heart on art. You're only a girl." I was inspired by Virginia Woolf in 1960, but they wouldn't let me write about her. They said she was a trivializer. I also wanted to do a paper on Simone de Beauvoir, and my philosophy teacher said, "Why would you write about the mistress? Write about the master." That was Sartre.
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My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.
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I`ve been called just about everything, but I`ve always thought of myself as just a singer.
