Moira Kelly Quotes
They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three years older than she is.
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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My family and friends treat me as they always have.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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I like pushing boundaries.
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I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.
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They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three years older than she is.
