Natalie Merchant Quotes
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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Everything can be satirized.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
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Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.
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Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
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Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
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Letting someone down is not criminal action.
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A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.
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I can be a romantic. The way to every woman's heart is through her stomach. Food is at the core of everything.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.
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I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
