Kaitlin Austra Stelmanis Quotes
When I was growing up, until I was 18 or 19, I was totally invested in the classical music world. I had no concept of anything else. The closest thing to a cool band I listened to was Radiohead. Radiohead were the only band I liked in high school. I was just obsessed with classical music, opera, Claude Debussy, and that kind of stuff.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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Justice is revenge.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I can do whatever I want.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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When you're on top, you're on top.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.
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We were reasonably happy with the way we started the tour against Scotland and haven't seen the need to make any changes at this stage.
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When I was growing up, until I was 18 or 19, I was totally invested in the classical music world. I had no concept of anything else. The closest thing to a cool band I listened to was Radiohead. Radiohead were the only band I liked in high school. I was just obsessed with classical music, opera, Claude Debussy, and that kind of stuff.
