Melissa Etheridge Quotes
On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
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When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.
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We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.
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Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.
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I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.
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I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.
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Sometimes indifference can be so erotic. I think the people who are most dismissive of you get the most of your attention.
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Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
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On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.
