Natalie Maines Quotes

Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.

Natalie Maines

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• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Sports
  • Easy
  • Rights

• What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Done
  • Environment
  • Most

• In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Life
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Decisions

• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Some
  • Harry Potter

• Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Fashion
  • Something
  • Which

• Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Potential

• Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Important
  • Religion

• Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Why
  • Friend
  • Best

• The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Think
  • Pen

• The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

  

  Lance Ito
  • American
  • Day
  • Value

• I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • World
  • Best
  • Never

• 'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Study
  • Philosophy
  • Buddhist

• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Light
  • Brain

• Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Time
  • Army
  • Africa

• It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazingly apparent. Gradually I came to realize - slow as I may have been - that what mattered was performance, that sometimes people might have to be helped to develop, and that it takes all kinds to make an organization run properly.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men.

  

  Pablo Escobar
  • Men
  • Intelligent
  • Two

• People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

  

  Robert Frost
  • People
  • Hate
  • Reason

• Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Peace

• Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • End