Natalie Maines Quotes
It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself.
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I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit.
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Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.
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I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
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It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
