Mary Halvorson Quotes
I've kind of become obsessed with the pedal steel. It's a beautiful sound, and the mechanics of it are so interesting.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
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Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.
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You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
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Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
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There is nothing more beautiful than personality wrinkles.
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You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
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People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.
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When it comes to writing songs, I've always got to be commissioned to do it. I won't write unless someone has got a real genuine purpose for it.
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Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.
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I've kind of become obsessed with the pedal steel. It's a beautiful sound, and the mechanics of it are so interesting.
