Linda McCartney Quotes
We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.
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The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.
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Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?
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We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.
