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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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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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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But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.
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Yes, I played in '92 with the original Dream Team, and then again in '96 with what they labeled 'Dream Team III.'
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Are you prepared to take a dive into the deep end of my head?
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Juarez had become a failed city. The mayor of Juarez lived in El Paso. Not only did he not live in his own city, he didn't live in his own country. You had all these kids out of school who didn't want to work because they saw their mothers toiling in jobs for hardly any cash.
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I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
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Toronto's a delightful city.
