Erin Davie Quotes
I certainly would never want to be normal. When people say, "You're weird," I usually take it as a compliment.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I know what poverty is.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
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Young people are craving something real, craving authenticity.
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Asylum is for people fleeing persecution, not those searching for a better job. Yet our broken system - with its debilitating court rulings, a crushing backlog, and gaping loopholes - allows illegal migrants to get into our country anyway and for whatever reason they want. This gaming of the system is unacceptable.
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There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'
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I certainly would never want to be normal. When people say, "You're weird," I usually take it as a compliment.
