#ld

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#down #go #hey #i #just

It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#brave new world #certainly #high #high school #i

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author! ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#author #boyfriend #crush #dead #girl

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have! ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#clothing #could #had #i #i wish

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#ditch #hard #i #know #labor

I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#control #could #drills #found #head

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

#achieve #children #having #having children #her

I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#always #i #i always #knew #me

In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#bold #days #dear #early #grew

Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way. ↗

— Paul Merton

#i #people #sanity #see #suppose