Nellie Melba Quotes
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.
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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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I belong nowhere and to no one.
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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
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I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
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Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.
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English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.
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I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.
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My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
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I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.
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Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
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We've got a lot of very enthusiastic guys that are here already.
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I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.
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Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.
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I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.
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I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.
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Always sing below your potential.
