Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
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Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
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He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.
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Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.
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I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to be in a single-camera comedy and then, on my hiatus, film a little low-budget indie drama. That would be a dream 12-month period. A dream role depends on having good material and working with people that I can learn from.
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If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
