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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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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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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QVC has been very good to me.
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If I make a song, and it's my song, like 'Lean On,' we're going to make money off the synchs, the Spotify, and we get to headline festivals on it. That's the model I want to explore.
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The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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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.
