Morna Anne Murray (Anne Murray) Quotes
What you saw was what you got. There was no difference from me on stage and me sitting here talking to you.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.
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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
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I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
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I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
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I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.
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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.
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Ruling Yemen is hard. I always say it’s like dancing on the heads of snakes
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Service of the people by sciences and arts will only exist when men live with the people and as the people live, and without presenting any claims will offer their scientific and artistic services, which the people will be free to accept or decline as they please.
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To my mind certain so-called abstraction is not abstraction at all.. ..on the contrary it is realism of our time.
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She would tell you herself that she has a very dreadful cold in her head at present; but I have not much compassion for colds in the head without fever or sore throat.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.
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Knowing me is easy. You can still twist your hair and feel silly. Look up the word tacky and have a salad. But when we're together you pull bread apart with your fingers into bites sometimes so small I gotta remind you, Peach, it is okay to be hungry.
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CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actually come together to say it is appropriate. When the internal dynamics ask you whether you have a replacement. I think the transition from CEOships have also become cartoonish.
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Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently.
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What you saw was what you got. There was no difference from me on stage and me sitting here talking to you.
