Kristin Hersh Quotes
My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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I was probably 14 or 15 when I was first on stage at school doing 'Measure for Measure.' I immediately felt it was a great way of expressing oneself at a moment when I didn't think I could express myself, really. I suddenly had access to this range of emotions and thoughts and feelings that were there in me. I was surprised by that.
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There is no such thing as a black middle class.
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Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.
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I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.
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Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time,' especially 'Time Regained,' made me think differently about what the novel is and can do. Then I forgot about it, then reread it and remembered again.
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My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.
