Feist Quotes
When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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My health is fine.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.
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Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
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On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.
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It was really important that 'Dream' kept the balance of strength and total vulnerability - which was my exact headspace when it was being written.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
