Natalie Merchant Quotes
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.
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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out there, but it's a joy and a pleasure to do anything that promotes this higher power - this light, if you will. I just think there aren't enough projects in the world that do that.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.
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Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.
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I also know that I have represented for us a certain kind of journalist and for me over the years when an older Black person comes and tells me how proud they are of me and the way I represent us on television, or when a younger person says to me, 'Hey Mr. Gordon, I watched you growing up and my parents made me watch you,'.
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I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.
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We came here with a plan: We're not going to let this game get by us.
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If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
