Shirley Ann Manson Quotes
I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
Quotes to Explore
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
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I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
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Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to watch things as they happen with your own eyes, knowing that the memory of the experience will always be with you.
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Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
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There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn't fit with what's the norm or what's acceptable. There's something both liberating about it and challenging. I can imagine it doing more harm than good.
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Unfortunately for the 'Tomorrow' series, I feel that for the actors that were in the first film, maybe our commitment to it is done.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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One gloomy and pessimistic writer with a powerful style affects a whole generation of writers, who in turn affect almost every educated person in the country.
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When I started writing, it felt good, and I knew I was in the right genre.
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The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.
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We now have powerful technology, which allows us a voice across boundaries, which was unimaginable at the time of the Greenham Protest, a protest that pre-dates the Internet and the mobile phone.
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If you want to, if you are a crazy person, you could go from idea to the stands in about four months. It does not cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a comic the way it does to make a television show or a movie.
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Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.
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What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
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It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.
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I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
