Shania Twain Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Shania Twain:
You don't want to be outside during blackfly season.
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It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling.
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I like being at home and cooking.
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I've been performing my whole life.
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I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.
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I love the role that men play in our lives.
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I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.
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I'm like everybody else.
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Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.
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I want romance.
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I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.
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You learn to accept your own reality.
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One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.
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I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.
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I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
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You can't just turn love on and off.
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I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.
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My life revolves around my child's routine.
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I'm not someone who is glamorous all the time.
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I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
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I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.
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I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
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It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.
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Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.
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Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
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I enjoy sports in person.
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I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.
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Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
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I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.
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There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.
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I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.
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If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.
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All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.
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So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.
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Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage.
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I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.
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It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
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I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon.
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I love music.
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I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.
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My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.
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For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.
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My father was a beautiful man.
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In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.
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Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.
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Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.
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Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.
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Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
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I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.
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I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television.
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I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.
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I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
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It always disappoints me when I go to a concert and they don't play my favorite song, or at least one of their biggest hits.
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It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.
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Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
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There was a time when I was - after my very first record from Nashville, I thought I might not be one of those who actually really makes it, and I may end up back in Canada, just playing clubs. And that might - this might have just been it.
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I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.
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If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.
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I really can't imagine not singing again.
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Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.
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I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.
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It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.
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I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it!
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I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.
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Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.
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I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.
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Suffering does not discriminate.
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I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
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I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.
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Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.
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I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.
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I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.
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Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility.
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I have two fathers.
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I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.
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I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.
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The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
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The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.
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I don't take any day for granted anymore.
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I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.
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I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.
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My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.
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I enjoyed working at McDonald's.
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Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.
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My voice is stronger today than ever.
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When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.
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I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.
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Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
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