Kristin Hersh Quotes
Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.
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If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.
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Folk Music is the map of singing.
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I wish I'd made 'Warrior,' and I wish I'd made 'Drive.'
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A win is a win, regardless of how you look at it.
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Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
