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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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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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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When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
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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 believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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At 25, my idea of success may have been more vain, like, "I'll be good the day that there's $20 million in my account and I have this particular house and the wife and 2.5 kids." But at 40 - and I know it's kind of silly telling you guys this - but as long as my Metacritic rating stays above 80, that's all I care about.
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I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.
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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.
