J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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My health is fine.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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Bell Biv Devoe, back in the day, we used to look up to them. They had incredible style back then, so we wanted to be like them.
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I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
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Information should never be used as a weapon on a team.
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I'm not a model, I'm an artist. In one of my videos, I'm doing this shot of me with no make-up on where I've just woken up, and I don't think a lot of people would be comfortable enough to do that. But that's the way I look. This is who I am. Let's enjoy it. Let's just live life to the full while we're all here.
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The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
