Elizabeth Kostova Quotes
I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.
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There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
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I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.
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Apparently, I have such a serious race face, even when I'm doing a bit of work, at first everybody wasn't sure if I was enjoying it or not. But it's absolutely exhilarating. It feels like you're one with your horse and you're flying.
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Dick Clark and I had such a hysterical relationship with each other.
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Taoism taught me to focus on the process and not to be attached to preconceived ideas of what I thought the outcome should be.
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I'd say my relation to being a woman is, I mean being a woman is whatever you want because the concept of gender is not really real, you know? And so for me it's about being comfortable in myself. It's about allowing myself to express who I am in any way that I want to, whether that be through my clothing, the way I present myself to the world, whether that be through like my gender identity and my pronouns. It's just really about allowing yourself to really be expressive and creative.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.
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I'm a real fighter.
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I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.
