Margo Martindale Quotes
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
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I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don't even know I'm working on. It's a free lunch. A free dinner. I don't know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.
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Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.
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We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
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If you need things, you work harder to get them.
