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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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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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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We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
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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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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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Shamelessly supporting and whitewashing terrible crimes against humanity.
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Whenever a work's structure is intentionally one of its own themes, another of its themes is art.
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'The X-Files' was a hard sell because people didn't know what it was. The network didn't understand what it was that they were buying, and at the beginning, they wanted us to have closure. They wanted us to put the cuffs on the bad guy at the end of each episode.
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Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.
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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.
