Nelly Furtado Quotes
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Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.
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I wanted to tell him I loved him, that I'd always loved him, & that life-& I- had never been the same without him there.
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I became an actress to provoke people and move people and to tell the stories.
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To do two things at once is to do neither.
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I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky.
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I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
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Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.
