Natalie Merchant Quotes
I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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People might say paper is dead or dying, but actually, it's not at all. It's just more rarified. The choice to send paper has more meaning because of the fact that you don't have to.
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Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.
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I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
