Nellie McKay Quotes
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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I'm not super into sports.
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The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
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I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.
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Animals are not cute. They are disturbing. Pigs do eat their young. Actually, I hate pigs. I just happen to have some who are friends of mine.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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My favourite TV show is 'Pretty Little Liars,' and I actually made a guest appearance on it. I didn't really have lines for my character, but I definitely want to get more into those kinds of shows.
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If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.
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I'm pretty indiscriminating, and I have awful taste, generally.
