Kristin Hersh Quotes
If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

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I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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I have a hyper personality.
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Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.
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Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.
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The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.
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Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.
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I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.
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If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.