Kristin Bauer van Straten Quotes
Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
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I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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I'm having a hard time understanding Donald Trump because he says one thing one day then corrects it the next day.
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A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it. But I have always wanted to think my own thoughts about a subject without being overly influenced by what others have thought before me.
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My thighs have been involved in many accidents,And now I can't get insured,And I don't need to be lured by you.My cunt is built like a wound that won't heal,And now you don't have to askBecause you know how I feel.
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The past, he said. The past is too much with me. And the past has made me useless. I have too much to remember-so much to remember that it becomes more important than the things there are to do. I’m living in the past and that is no way to live.
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I count myself as not only just an artist, not only as a singer, but a business woman. I write my own songs; I write my own video treatments, manage other artists. I write for other artists; it's not just about getting on stage and singing a song.
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I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.
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There is stardust in your veins. We are literally, ultimately children of the stars.
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At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.
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I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.
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You remain the more than natural figure. You Become the soft-footed phantom, the irrationalDistortion, however fragrant, however dear. That’s it: the more than rational distortion, The fiction that results from feeling. Yes, that.
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We lived together for a long time,’ he said, looking out of a crack-spangled window, ‘we have no need to fight.’ I bet he is dead now. He had the vulnerable purity and courage that would ensure he was among the first to get whacked on the front.
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Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.
