Imelda May Quotes
I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.
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You will almost always leave a professional services environment with a few noteworthy friends and relationships. These contacts can prove to be extremely valuable both personally and professionally.
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I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.