Marsha Norman Quotes
If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.
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I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
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Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
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I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.
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Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.
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I believe in peace through strength.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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I don't believe in voodoo.
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If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.
