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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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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Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.
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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
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A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'
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I might not be beautiful, but I'm very interesting!
