Mindy McCready Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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I love the free spirit in London.
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Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say that I love him so much.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
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Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.
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It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
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When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.
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A novel is too much of a commitment. I tend to peruse Twitter - I check to see if I had any mentions and read the latest messages.
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There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.
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It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.
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My mom and I have always had issues.
