Brenda Shaughnessy Quotes
I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he's made more of me, too.
Quotes to Explore
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!
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I consider myself a little weak.
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
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You don't swing where you sleep.
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I want to bring us together as a nation to recognize the humanity and support the potential of all of our people.
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When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
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Does anyone want to see a person who's making the money that the newspapers say I'm making complaining, 'Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?' No one would've had any patience for that. I wouldn't have any patience for that.
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If someone is nice enough to come up to you and tell you how much they enjoy your work, and all they want in return is to take a photograph and for you to chat for five minutes, then I am delighted to do that.
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What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by myself. That was how I celebrated getting a record deal.
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I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.
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French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.
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It's pretty frustrating waiting for anything.
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I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.
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I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
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It’s hard to be ignored When I look at you, you look so bored My baby, my darling, I’ve been taking a beating…Well alright (well alright) It’s okay (it’s okay) We all get the slip sometimes every day I’ll just keep it to myself in the sun In the sun
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The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.
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I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he's made more of me, too.
