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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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've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.
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Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
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Immigration is tough. My daughter-in-law is going through the immigration process as we speak.
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...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden.
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
