Natalie Maines Quotes
People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
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I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.
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I eat next to nothing.
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.
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I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
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Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
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People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
