Sandra Bernhard Quotes
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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Great books are rare.
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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She tells me to 'live free and be free, but listen to other people's advice.' I listen, but I don't always follow it.
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while the shadows like long fingers over the haystacks that sweep past keep shocking him because he is riding backwards.
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The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.
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People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening.
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My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.
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People make a star out of actors after one or two films and keep capitalising on the same thing without having the courage of exploring the world of cinema, which has so much to offer.
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When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'
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Having a United States passport has been an incredible asset, and I hope that will continue to be the case.
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'Onward' was a song I wrote in Montreux, in Switzerland, when we were there camping out for the whole winter. In the summer, Montreux is a really, really big summertime-touristy, full-of-life kind of place. In the winter, it closes down.
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The only good Philip K. Dick film is 'Total Recall.' It's faithful to the book. Arnie gets it.
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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I was honestly never a huge school person.
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People get really caught up in their own trips.
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But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
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It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.
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One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.
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I think that, as a black girl, you grow up internalizing all these messages that say you shouldn't accept your hair or your skin tone or your natural features or that you shouldn't have a voice or that you aren't smart.
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I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.
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Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian.
