Melissa Etheridge Quotes
I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
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I wanna live.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.
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As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.
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I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.
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Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure.
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I should've been a cowboy.I should've learned to rope and ride.Wearing my six-shooter, riding my pony on a cattle driveStealing the young girls' heartsJust like Gene and RoySinging those campfire songs.I should've been a cowboy.
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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
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I personally am not a shorts-wearing guy. That goes for any form of shorts, beside sports shorts, that I have to wear.
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When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.
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My love of baking might have originated with my grandmother. She had a lemon tree growing in her backyard, and one of my favorite memories is of picking lemons together and then baking lemon bars.
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It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.
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There's not a lot of gay programming on TV.
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In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.
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'Bottle Rocket' is an underdog.
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I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
