Kristin Hersh Quotes
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I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.
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I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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It's not like what I do or what I wear is my copyright. What I'm wearing now also is an inspiration. It is how I saw it on the mannequin, and I just wore it, so it's in a way copied. But obviously, I wouldn't want to spend my life thinking about dresses. It is such a waste of life.
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Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun.
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The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
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I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
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Whether we agree with them or not, politicians aren't for trusting. They are for getting done what can be done to make really horrible problems into plain old lousy problems.
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Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.
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The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.
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The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.
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I was always an independent, even when I had partners.
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My view is that this is the beginning, not the end, of what is going to be a journey that takes some time.
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Cold, impossible, ahead Lifts the mountain's lovely head Whose white waterfall could bless Travellers in their last distress.
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I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.
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Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.
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I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
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Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.
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No person ever gave me nothing but God.
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The songs become the show, which is how it should be.
