Sheena Easton Quotes
I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.
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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
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An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'
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There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.
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It is expensive to start from scratch though.
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If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?
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[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
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I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.
