Joanna Newsom Quotes
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
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My first thought is always of light.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
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We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.
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You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of directors, the best of productions, get the best technicians, you can put your entire body and soul into the making of a film, but at the end of the day, it all depends on the mood of that one audience member that goes into that theater.
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The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.
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Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.
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Charm was what he excelled at. If anyone sensed his underlying shallowness, they usually mistook it for well-hidden great depth of character, like misinterpreting a radar bounce.
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The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early '60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.
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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.
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If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's block or how to deal with any problem that can come up - whether you're writing about yourself or a group of people, I find that very interesting.
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I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
