Nellie Melba Quotes
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
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My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
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I wake up in the morning, and I go, 'I'm Doctor Who! I'm playing Doctor Who. I'm Doctor Who.'
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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I got an opportunity to be on a tribute to the Rolling Stones in the late '90s and did a rockin' version of 'Paint It Black' - that's probably the biggest stretch of anything that I've personally done. I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, but I understand where my parameters are.
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Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.
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One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.
