Mary Lambert Quotes
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.
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From my perspective, you get up every day and you get out there and you make your case, and you reach as many people as possible. That's what I intend to do. So I'm in it for the long run. It's not a very long run. It will be over by February 5.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
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They are slaves who fear to speakFor the fallen and the weak;They are slaves who will not chooseHatred, scoffing, and abuse,Rather than in silence shrinkFrom the truth they needs must think;They are slaves who dare not beIn the right with two or three.
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I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.
