Imelda May Quotes
I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.
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We don't come up with product names like 'Cookie Sugar a la Mode.' We made a commitment that our brand is straightforward.
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My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.
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I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
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I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.
