Natalie Maines Quotes
I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.

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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I'm not graceful.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.
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Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
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Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
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I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.