John Mellencamp Quotes
Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.
Quotes to Explore
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
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I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.
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You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.
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I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in 'Cop.'
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I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.
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Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.
