Mary Elizabeth Lease Quotes
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.
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I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.
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With the policymaking process, you have an idea, and you try to sell other stakeholders on the idea. That's not much different than in business, where you're trying to find capital to make your idea a reality.
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If you listen to one of my albums, you can tell I do a lot of different things. In the case of 'Vincent', I thought of his picture 'Starry Night.' It was a beautiful road-map for a song. I used a lot of imagery from that painting.
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Even when sisters are different... Their likeness comes shining through!
