Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson) Quotes
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.
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I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.
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The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
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No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
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Not all that counts, can be counted.
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Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.
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I have to slow down for some people. In Louisiana, people didn't have a clue what I was talking about. I remember seeing people glaze over. Seeing the moment where they've just completely lost all... They just wait for me to stop talking and then say, 'Yeah.'
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I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics.
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My daughters are my Picassos.
