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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If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
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As a negotiator, you should strive for a reputation of being fair. Your reputation precedes you. Let it precede you in a way that paves success.
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I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.
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The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.
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I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.
