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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I find that people can pass me on the street who've just seen my picture in the paper and they wouldn't recognize me. If they'd seen me on television, the heads turn. They say, "Wait a minute. I don't know who that is, but he's somebody.
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SF raised me, and I think it did a damn fine job. It at least removed a lot of potential sources of anxiety.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
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The papists ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so childishly to toddle along the benches, nay, to creep in the mire, and cannot skip and dance, on such light feet and legs, over and outside of God's commandments, as they do, the strong heroes and giants ... God forbid that we should!
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
