Nellie McKay Quotes
It's always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It's even harder playing in your hometown - and I have a couple of home towns - but, you're playing for all the people you knew in high school, so it causes no small degree of panic in my mind.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?
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I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.
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I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.
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I've been around long enough now that people who don't get into the outrageousness, the over-the-top stuff, they know not to buy my books anymore.
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Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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It's always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It's even harder playing in your hometown - and I have a couple of home towns - but, you're playing for all the people you knew in high school, so it causes no small degree of panic in my mind.
