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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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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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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I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.
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When I was writing about the Republican primaries, it was as though the Bible was a black box that people reached into to pull out edicts and prejudices and rules and opinions, and I wish they had fact-checked it! Especially Rick Santorum.
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Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.
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I can deal with imperfection, but I can't deal with people who lie to themselves and lie to the world to make the world feel better.
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There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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Some men take good care of a car; others treat it like one of the family.
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I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.
