Nellie McKay Quotes
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
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I love New York.
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I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
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Fighting Manny Pacquiao in the future - there's possibilities it could happen. But whatever happens in the future happens in the future.
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While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must.
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If there was one constant in my ever-changing life, it is Joey McIntyre.
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I could make thousands of dollars in Broadway musicals, but among the best experiences I had was doing 'Hamlet' in Milwaukee and a version of 'Cyrano' that my wife wrote for me on a bus-and-truck tour.
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I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.
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Two decades of experience as an entrepreneur and CEO has informed my view that our priorities must stress improving educational outcomes, rebuilding America's infrastructure, lowering health care costs, addressing climate change, reforming immigration, and ushering in an advanced energy economy.
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Toronto's a delightful city.
