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Nellie McKay Quotes

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 13, 1982

Topics

New York City Buildings New Why Old

When you work with somebody you have chemistry with, it's easy and it's fun. You hardly call it work.

Work Fun Easy You Chemistry Call

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

Born Land More Little Where Pianist

The first ATM in Hong Kong was actually at the foot of the bank. I remember my father using it. And I find it absolutely terrifying that - something about the way the machine just kind of coughed up money with no difficulty.

John Lanchester

Father Money Remember Find Kind Way

Absolutely the most fun thing to do in space and rewarding thing, in many ways, is to look back at planet Earth.

John M. Grunsfeld

Fun Space Look Back Earth Planet

You don't want to be a one-trick pony. On a lot of Smiths songs, I used a pick or a plectrum, and for some of the slow songs, I used my thumbs and my fingers. That's why I love the bass - it's adaptable, and you can express yourself so well with it.

Love Yourself Slow You Want Why

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Skill Equal Left Able Pick Pocket

There's three things that are never good for a consumer mindset: uncertainty certainly, concern, and discordance.

Good Uncertainty Mindset Three Never

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

Will Pieces Nose Transfer Forced

You can't bomb a people just in case.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

People You Just Bomb Case

'The Onion' is an amazing place to work because it's a bunch of really smart, collaborative writers who aren't afraid to try crazy things.

Work Smart Amazing Crazy Place Try

I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going.

Go Airport Rome Right Tell Shooting

I always at least try to come from some sort of human place no matter how ridiculous the character is. That's really awesome. That is more the work that I'm leaning towards doing.

Work Character Doing Place Matter

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