Mary McDonnell Quotes
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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Winning excuses everything.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
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An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.
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If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
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It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.
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I love to work. I love to have complexity.
