Erin McKeown Quotes
I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.
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There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.
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We [Americans] are a nation of immigrants. We all understand what this country has become because talent from all around the world wants to come here, people who are willing to take risks, people who want to build on their dreams and make sure their kids have an - even bigger dreams than they have.
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M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.
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Today, of course, the world's perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India is not some backward nation. In fact, it is the fastest growing free-market democracy in the world today, and that says it all.
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Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.
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I won gold medals representing this country, but I've gotten more recognition around the world than I have in my own back yard.
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Unfortunately being born princess doesn't autimatically make a girl graceful or confident, a fact I've lamented for most of my fourteen years
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I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.
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Now, I'm not going to be misquoted on this like I have numerous times before, so I'll be quite clear. I've never said hitler was my hero, just that if he had focused on more than one race he would have had the right idea. Try to turn that one against me.
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If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair, its this: Im not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.
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You know how some trees have those ear mushrooms that just grow off, and you could live on one of those mushrooms and not realize that there was stacks and stacks of others? That's how I describe music scenes in New York. That's one of the trippiest things about living here - just how many parallel universes there are that you can be completely unaware of.
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True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an intersubjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and through them, all the rest.
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But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.
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I like to make them wait, then I make them beg. And when I take off my clothes, then I form a third leg.
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I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.
