Martha Wainwright Quotes
I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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I have an incredibly high metabolism.
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I would not want to be a part of any project that I feel would not work. An actor like me always wants to work to get appreciation of the audiences. And appreciation can only come if people will come to watch the film.
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You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
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I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
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I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.
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Today we are visitors to the airport, tomorrow we will come here as travellers.
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He Corot is always the strongest, he has foreseen everything.
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You are either lucky in this department or you aren't-and you cannot make your own luck.
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A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that.
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I don't want my child to have unhealthy values.
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I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'
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Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
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My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with several physicians and scientist colleagues, I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science.
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I think 'austerity' is a much abused word. I prefer to call it 'fiscal discipline' or financial, 'financial competency.'
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I took a sociology class, and I got an A in it. Then I found out you could get an emphasis in criminal justice. I wanted to be an administrator.
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I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings.
