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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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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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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To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
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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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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
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I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.
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I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.
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Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.
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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
