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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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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If in the midst of the many Dissatisfaction among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified...
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We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?
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Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.
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I saw 'Starbuck' before I ever knew I would be involved in 'Delivery Man,' but I liked it, and then a couple of months went by, and I really knew I wanted to audition for it when it became available.
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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark nightI can see paradise by the dashboard light.
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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.
