K. D. Lang Quotes
My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!
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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.
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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
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My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
