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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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 feel an army in my fist.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
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For many years I didn't have health insurance.
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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.
