Dita Von Teese Quotes
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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I could stand to lose some weight.
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For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.
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The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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I think women rule the world, and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.
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In a Scottish opera, it ain't over 'till the fat lady bitch-slaps you.
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When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The process is sometimes painful, but also exciting.
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Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.
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For dance recitals, my mom would do my makeup all extravagant because obviously I was really little and where else would I be wearing makeup? We would always be in her bathroom before the dance recital, and she'd do our hair and makeup.
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I don't spend much time on Twitter. I joined because I found it funny.
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I cover my shyness by being exactly the opposite. You know, really loud and very Italian. I am an extremely insecure and fragile person, and only the people that really know me know that. But I push myself.
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
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I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute.
