Shirley Ann Manson Quotes
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
Quotes to Explore
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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I'm going to find solutions wherever I can. I think it's all a priority. You can't just say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this but not that.' You have to work on all of it.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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It's a very rare and fortunate position to be able to make movies with two of your best friends who happen to be really amazing actors and writers.
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.
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Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.
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There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.
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We grow by letting the customer tell us. So when the customer tells us that they're frustrated, that they just got their catalogue and we're already out of a product they wanted, then it tells me that we're not making enough. We let the customer tell us instead of creating an artificial demand for our products. Any time you're making products that people don't need, you're at the mercy of the economy, you're at the mercy of whatever is going on. So we tried to avoid that situation.
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I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
