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 trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.
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People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.
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I don't have a smart house. My house is very dumb.
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I've always wanted to work with Barbra Streisand because she's worked with some of the best background singers in the world who are friends of mine, worked with them in concert or on movie soundtracks, and I always say 'Now, where was I? Where was I when she was hiring people to work with her?'
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One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.
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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.
