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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Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
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I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.
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No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.
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Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life. Strange, that my first passionate love-letter should have been addressed to a dead girl. Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
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The fun thing we get to do is mess around playing all sorts of different people. People that really existed, people that exist in a book - whom people love and have a specific idea of who they are, and you kind of have to work with that - or people that you can take a completely fresh look at.
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I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.
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I've been into photography for years and I do it as often as possible. I'm just trying to develop myself.
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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
