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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Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
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When you want to learn about how people write, their unpolished, unguarded words are the best place to start, and we have reams of them.
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This is the most rewarding season I've ever had.
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I think of myself as a writer as much as I think of myself as a linguist and an academic. I really enjoy writing - playing with language and getting just the right metaphor.
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You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.
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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.
