Martha Wainwright Quotes
I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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Our people expect the best of us. They send us to take care of the people's business, and those of us who take hold of that responsibility understand that's what it's really about.
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I have been a big guy all my life, I am not going to lose a bunch of weight, because then you're like that weird fat person that got skinny but still has a big head. I don't want to do that. So I'm just trying.
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On my first trip to New York in the 1980s, the first place I wanted to visit was the Plaza Hotel, home to Kay Thompson's Eloise.
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I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.
