Kathleen Hanna Quotes
There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.
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I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.
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Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.
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When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.
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The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.
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Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
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With an economy that is going strong and a belief that tomorrow will be better than today, it may be easier to just shrug it off if, say, an internet service you use like WhatsApp gets turned off by the government as the Communist Party's national congress approaches.
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I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.
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There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.
