Imelda May Quotes
American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.
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If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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In the past, I've been a workaholic. I'm trying not to be anymore.
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Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time.
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I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
