Natalie Merchant Quotes

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.

Natalie Merchant

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MotherChildrenAchieveYoungShe

People can sense when someone is fake or real on TV.

Joey Fatone

PeopleFakeSomeoneRealSenseTV

People want to make sure there is flexibility to reallocate assets. They are trusting us to make the asset allocation decisions.

Michael Hintze

PeopleDecisionsWantFlexibilityUs

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

Amber Benson

DreamsYour DreamsAmazingWorld

Being a young woman is difficult enough, but add to that the pressures of Hollywood's spotlight, and you have a lot to navigate.

Amanda de Cadenet

WomanEnoughYouYoungHollywood

Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be.

Sissy Spacek

LifeMotherMyselfMeTryingWay

Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn't know where to put me. The blond hair wasn't matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better for my work.

Sofia Vergara

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I just want to conquer people and their souls.

Mike Tyson

PeopleConquerWantJustSouls

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan's most successful tools. He'll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

Joyce Meyer

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Don't go to the grave with life unused.

Bobby Bowden

LifeGoGraveUnused

Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have a death wish?' After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It's indecent. I have a life wish.

Philippe Petit

LifeBeautifulWalkDeathWordsMe

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

Susan Orlean

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If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore.

Shia LaBeouf

GoodPeopleNightWishYouActor

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