Natalie Merchant Quotes
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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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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You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
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You don't meet that many people that you can talk about Roots Manuva with, but that was my favorite in school, this record of his called 'Run Come Save Me.' When I first started writing lyrics, it came from that.
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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
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Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.
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I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
