Imelda May Quotes
I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Every now and then I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me, and I experience racism. Things like not being buzzed into a store or sitting in first class on a plane and having someone ask to see my ticket four times.
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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.
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I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.
