Heather Donahue Quotes
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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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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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
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'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
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To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.
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The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.
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Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.
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Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.
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Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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It's not nice to say it - I know female musicians, but not so many rappers. I can't think of one I idolize, which is sad, but I'm hoping that will change.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.
