Nellie McKay Quotes
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.
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The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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I like to build things. I like to do things.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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Truth is a tendency.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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I never want anyone to have a bad evening because I caused it.
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If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I've been in the world, there'd be a lot of little flags.
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer's character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation - an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example.
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I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.
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I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.
