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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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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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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I'm not a babysitter.
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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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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was known, even loved, then risk interpreting and revising it. They could conceal even as they revealed themselves. Inflection, timing and tonality were their language, at least as much as words.
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The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
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One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.
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When people see a Spanish last name, they have an image in their head of what the typical Latina looks like. I think it's important on television to have different representations of people. And I'm so proud of being Latina. I love it.
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I like a girl to wear oversize sweaters that look like my own - it's beyond sexy.
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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.
