Melissa Etheridge Quotes
There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.
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We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.
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Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.
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The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.
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My dad sent me a clipping about the self-defence militias in Mexico. Immediately, when I read it, I knew I wanted to create a parallel story about vigilantes on both sides of the border.
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You know what? I did a lot of things that were deliberate, and they all backfired. I was trying desperately to become Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler, and it did not work for me. I took a lot of leaps that I shouldn't have, traditionally speaking. I paid the price for that. I was not as hire-able for a while. But then I just gave all that up.
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Is this still the White House's stated and actual policy?
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I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.
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Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.
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If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.
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I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.
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There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.
