Nellie McKay Quotes
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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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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.
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If carbon came out of the ground, it has to go back into the ground.
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I have trouble with things like Facebook. It presents such a warped vision. I get sick of people's opinions about every little thing and this warped view that everyone is as happy as a pig in garbage.
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I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them are bad. In fact, I find that very dangerous.
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A man should make all he can, and give all he can.
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I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.
