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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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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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 like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.
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Skating becomes more important to me every year. It's obviously harder as age takes a toll on the body and the brain, and I think because of that, competing becomes much more difficult. That's why those who stick around are always so appreciative of others' skating because we know how much work goes into it.
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I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.
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I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.
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Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
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I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.
