Neko Case Quotes
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
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I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.
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I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.
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If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
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I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.
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I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'
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Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.
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My parents didn't have any money.
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
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Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.
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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
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And still, the more he learned, the more he became aware that he did not know.
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I meditate. I breathe out what I can't control and focus on the positives.
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Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think women are stronger.
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I'm one of those workaholics, the kind of guy who may drop with a cardiac arrest around 55.
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For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them; I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like more, to be more open and enjoy more things, which has given me more opportunities.
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I'm a playmaker. I'm always attacking the rim and have somewhat of a reckless style. I try to be everywhere at once.
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I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind of demonic joy in writing.
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America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.
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I'm kind of like the quarterback: being able to orchestrate a lot of things out there on the field and being able to run different schemes and coverages.
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Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.
