Nellie McKay Quotes
I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.
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I shake my booty all the time! It's the best workout!
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.
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I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
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That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists.
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I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.
