Mary Oliver Quotes
Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
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Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
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I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.
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Speak louder than the words before you, and give them meaning no one else has found. The role we play is so important.
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Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.
