Martha Wainwright Quotes
You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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I've been very lucky.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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My best friend is my husband.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.
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While I was shooting for 'NH10,' my hair had to look dirty in the film. To improve the texture... quality of hair, I had to use a lot of conditioner.
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We lived in a council flat, and I spent most of my time on estates. My mum was very strict. I used to hate it.
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The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
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You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque.
