Kristin Hersh Quotes
I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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I'm a model, but I love to eat.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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Senegal needs a renaissance.
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I met Jared Leto at Soho House in Berlin.
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I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.
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It makes you very uncomfortable to realize that your emotional attachment to something is an indulgence.
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And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.
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When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.
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I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.
