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 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'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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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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I've aged well because I've had to take care of myself.
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The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.
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It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.
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The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very often, there are phrases in Italian, German and French that are left untranslated.
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Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.
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I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.
