Joanna Russ Quotes
'And you think they’ll let you,' said Machine. It was a flat, sad statement.'No,' she said, 'but nobody ever let me do anything in my life before and I never let that stop me.'
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I received free health care.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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My approach to beauty is all about moods. If you want to feel sexy, if you want to feel feminine or, I don't know, boyish - it's all about how you feel at that point in time. My mood changes.
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The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.
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Attitude determines the altitude of life.
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London was my first Olympics. It was my dream to get there, and I literally had the time of my life.
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'And you think they’ll let you,' said Machine. It was a flat, sad statement.'No,' she said, 'but nobody ever let me do anything in my life before and I never let that stop me.'
