Martha Wainwright Quotes
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.
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People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.
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I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.
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Women bring a different perspective to the table, and lawmaking is a compilation of diverse ideas and views and perspective. And when you don't have that, you end up making bad laws.
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I might not be beautiful, but I'm very interesting!
