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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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We used to listen to Lionel Barrymore do 'A Christmas Carol' on the radio long ago, and I like Reginald Owen, who played Scrooge in the first treatment for the screen. But my favorite Scrooge was Alastair Sim. He was enchanting, an absolutely beautiful performance.
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I think that books are fundamentally educational.
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When I shop, I only do it when I really have to do it for something. I don't like to try on clothing like that - as much I love looking fly.
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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.
