Janis Joplin Quotes
I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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It's impossible to feel the creative juices flowing if you're always worried about the end result. I think really, really good work comes out of people being quite open, not stressed, really exploring, trying to be imaginative, without worrying too much about the end result.
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A lot of people always look back at 'Twin Peaks' and say that was the start of this explosion we've had in good television drama, but we did it in a time when there were still only three networks.
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I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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I love pizza; you can't really go wrong with pizza.
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I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.
