Dorothy Allison Quotes
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.
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I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
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I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
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Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.
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A good fan base has developed around the Hurricanes, and I see the opportunity for continued growth for this franchise in the future.
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For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
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If it's boring, then it's tiring.
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In oratory the will must predominate.
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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
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Nobody wants to say, at least not for publication, that we live in a society that cares as much about the humanities as it cares about the color of the rain in Tashkent.
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Depression is not interesting to watch.
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Most people - including business leaders - want a healthy future for their children.
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Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.
