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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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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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.
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I was often surprised by the dispassionate way patients’ symptoms were discussed and by how much time was spent on trying to manage their suicidal thoughts and self-destructive behaviors, rather than on understanding the possible causes of their despair and helplessness. I was also struck by how little attention was paid to their accomplishments and aspirations; whom they cared for, loved, or hated; what motivated and engaged them, what kept them stuck, and what made them feel at peace—the ecology of their lives.
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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.
