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Martha Wainwright Quotes

I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

Martha Wainwright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 8, 1976

Topics

Life Family Live Shadow Husband

The sun doesn't always shine; the wind doesn't always blow. This is why, if we want to rely on renewables, we need intelligent systems that integrate and coordinate different sources of energy at scale so that when one is scarce or unavailable, the others can automatically compensate.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Sun Shine Wind Energy Want Why

For me, all you want from your actor is for them to engage on a deeply emotional level with the material. If you feel like that happens, directing the actors is pretty much done at that point.

Me Feel You Done Want Actor

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

Jeanette Winterson

Think Seriously Foolish Take Would

I'm fascinated to see how 'Black Watch' connects with an American audience.

Black American Audience See Watch

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.

Brother Now Washington Advantage

The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.

Live Music People Expectations Want

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

Good Me Think Year Nothing Stage

Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.

Michael Stuhlbarg

Life Joy Mind Me Frustration You

We didn't have a backyard, so as I child, I would turn the coffee table into a stage and put on shows. But it was just a fun thing to do; I never thought about it as a profession. That started as a fluke; my mother had a friend who was an artist with a theater company, and I started going there after school because my mom knew I'd be safe.

Friend Mother Coffee School Fun Mom

Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes.

Wife You Know Will She Dogs

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Technology Time People Saying Go

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

Men Government Ask Only Other

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