Katrina Mayer Quotes
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.
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Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
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There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just listen to that every day, because the album feels like, if it were a film, it would be black and white. It feels like there's a war percolating throughout the album itself. It's dark, and it has a nice forward pace to it.
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I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.
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So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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I believe in the philosophy of turning the other cheek.
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What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
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But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don't like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.
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The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer, The headstones thicken along the way; And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger For those who walk with us day by day.
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Every morning you get the chance to begin again.
