Cat Power Quotes
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My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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You can't get dressed without good hair.
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I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.
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But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them.
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You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
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People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.
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A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
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My mother dressed me always very conservatively.
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It's fun to be a girl, and get dressed up, but that's not how I really am.
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We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.
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I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I moved to the States when I was 19. I was very impressed early on by being around people who spoke my language and ate the same food and listened to the same music, dressed the same. But then you look around and, you know, you're not in Puerto Rico.
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It's terribly easy to be well dressed. It's much more difficult to be badly dressed.
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Part of what you hear when somebody says something awful to you is like, 'They're right, I look ridiculous, why am I dressed this way, I should go home and change.' For me that voice is always in my head, right around the corner.
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Sometimes there's a day where I don't feel good being out in the world, and I feel unsafe in the world in general. And an anxiety about just showing up in the world. It's kind of irrational, but people do say things to me out in the street about how I'm dressed.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.
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People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.
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Music needs no human justification. God saw fit to include music in the totality of his creation and as such it needs no further justification. This is the starting place for thinking about music, period, full stop, end of report.
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I think every actor wants to play those big parts. In the very first play I ever did, I remember understanding all the characters in it. I always felt I could play anyone.
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It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.
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I've always dressed like a dude.
