Michelle Shocked Quotes
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
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Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
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If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.
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Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.
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In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
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It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
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We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.
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Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.
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Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.
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War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.
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Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.
