Martha Wainwright Quotes
I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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The world in all doth but two nations bear —The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
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President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East and has kept a good relationship with the Western world.
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It's been a pleasure to see female comedians be prominent and flourish - like Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani impressions, which are uncanny in their precision.
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I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.
