Shirley Ann Manson Quotes
You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
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Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.
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To finally have people receive and hear what I'm saying is one of the most gratifying feelings an artist can ever have.
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This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously "creative".
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I like to tell the artist what the song or album means to me, in detail. Then I let the artist run with it and create in an unrestrained manner. Once the artist gets back to me with a few ideas, I like to do the little changes to make it perfectly speak to the audience.
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You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.
