Natalie Massenet Quotes
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
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Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.
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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
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The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.
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My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.
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I saw 'Tootsie' with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.
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To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.
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You can't learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don't, the only way of finding out is having it land.
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Scotland is the only case in the world where the poor part of a territory wants to separate from the rich part. If independence came, one option is to keep the pound as its currency, so that all economic decisions will continue to be taken by the Bank of England.
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Before me, everything was black or navy blue or gray or brown or beige, things like that, for daytime. I began using shocking pink and ice blue and all kinds of bright colors. And I dyed furs.
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I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
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The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.
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So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.
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We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.
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I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.
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Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.
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If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.
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I'm an accidental entrepreneur.
