Chelsea Cain Quotes
I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
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When I was going through my chemotherapy, I realized not many people are willing to talk about cancer, even after getting fully cured. Celebrities and educated people are also very protective and private about it. I still haven't understood why. I decided to fight my battle out in the public.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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Things need shaking up politically, culturally.
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We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.
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Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.
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It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
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I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'
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But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.
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Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that.
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But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.
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Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.
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There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or the more flawed part of ourselves. So it seems to really be our own pop-culture version of Greek mythology.
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I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.
