Madison Smartt Bell Quotes
To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
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Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.
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With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
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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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All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.
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Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.
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I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.
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The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
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No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
