Jennifer Nettles Quotes

Perfectionism is really a challenge for me, and it causes me to be super-critical of myself in so many ways: about body image constantly; about parenting; about being a mother.

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• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
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• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
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• I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

  

  Nancy Marchand
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• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Tongue
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• Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Living

• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Rock
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• I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Remember
  • War
  • Fear

• By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Singing

• I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

  

  Karen Black
  • Week
  • Dead
  • Worked

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • World
  • Love
  • Giving

• I have so many friends and obligations, and I want to go out and support people. But we eat at home.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • People
  • Home
  • Friends

• I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Justice
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• Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Know
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• The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Like
  • Right

• For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • World
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  • Science

• I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Day
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  • Try

• I always believe in buying things locally; anything locally made is a big plus, along with organic materials. I try really hard to do that, and brands really pop out to me if I know they're trying to be environmentally friendly.

  

  Jessica Hart
  • Believe
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• When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Serious

• Growing up in a house where there was a lot of different musical influences - my mom listens to soul stuff and Top 40, my sisters would listen to hip-hop - and the church, I grew up listening to a lot of gospel stuff. So I think that plays a role in how I make music now because my music has a lot of range. I don't just do one thing.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Thinking
  • Passing
  • Blessedness

• I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Kind
  • Artist
  • Serious

• Perfectionism is really a challenge for me, and it causes me to be super-critical of myself in so many ways: about body image constantly; about parenting; about being a mother.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Mother
  • Challenge