Natalie Merchant Quotes
Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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I built Kosovo for 10 years.
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Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.
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There was always that thing with 'Johnny' - I always saw myself as his writer and PR. But when he got out there, I had no control. His whole thing was going off on those flights of fancy. Going, 'Let's see what we can possibly do that hasn't been done before up here.' And when it works, it's lovely; it's a great night.
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I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.
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I thought I saw the face of God.
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I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.
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Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
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Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
