"I really kind of set the bar really low, so I don't get disappointed."

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Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Natalie Maines

#Bars Quotes #Kind Quotes #Lows Quotes

“I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.”
“Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.”
“If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.”
“Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.”
“The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“While he was alive Peter Jennings did considerable damage to the cause of civilization and human deceny [sic] by his sympathy for Jew-hating terrorists and their supporters.”
“She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.”
“When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end. At one talk I was asked, "What's the difference between yourself and someone without mental illness?". At another talk I was asked, "How do you make the voices be not so mean?". I wish I knew.”

Source : Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.9, Delacorte Press

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