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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Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
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I like vintage stores - all over the world. I have a little collection of my favorite stores here and there. Other than that, I love online shopping.
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For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.
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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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I don't like beating people on the head with the message. I don't like standing on the soapbox.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
