Kristin Hersh Quotes
My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.
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The world is in motion, as it seems.
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Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
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Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
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I don't thrive on the concept of being naked at every possible moment, but it's not the biggest deal in the world to me.
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I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.
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I was brought up with a scientific outlook on life. It's the way my father deciphers the world - whether it's football, politics or hairstyles. So I don't get anxious about the future, because I was raised to believe and accept that nothing stays the same, and the best way to survive is to adapt.
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Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
