Kristen Johnston Quotes
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.
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I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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And if you do all you can, that's all you can ever do.
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Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.
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Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.
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I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
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Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do.
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Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.
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I wouldn't like my fans going through my rubbish.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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I love that first-time feeling that I can't build in myself anymore, where I can learn and emulate other filmmakers. Be it Ayan Mukherjee, Punit Mahotra, Karan Malhotra, Tarun Mansukhani or Shakun Batra, all of them have taught me something or the other.
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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, "That's who I should grow up to be." It's odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted; I had no idea what it was like actually to be her. In those days, we weren't bombarded by images the way we are now, and the ones we did have were more vivid in people's minds.
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The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.
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I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.
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I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.
