Morna Anne Murray (Anne Murray) Quotes
Just once how I'd like to see the headline say, not much to print today, can't find anything bad to say.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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Work is at the core of human dignity.
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I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.
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I cannot believe you harbor any illusions about the barbarians being nature’s noblemen. I soon lost mine. They were every bit as ruthless. They were simply less efficient.
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Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
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My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.
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Just once how I'd like to see the headline say, not much to print today, can't find anything bad to say.
