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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that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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The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.
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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.
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DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old. Doing Tom Cruise wedding-type things becomes the focal point of every interview, and you realize that you have to cut it out if you don't want to be answering questions about that.
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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.
