Mercedes McCambridge Quotes
So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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Anyone can look beautiful.
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My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.
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I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
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I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.
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I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.
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Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.
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You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.
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The first theater subscription I ever bought was the August Wilson season at Signature. I remember thinking a whole season to one playwright was a great way for a master to do a victory lap.
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My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
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So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so
