Cat Power Quotes
After my second-to-last record called "The Greatest," I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, not anger towards myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
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I'm not the kind of male who has to put my imprint on everything.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.
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It's bizarre to be given an award for being empathetic and kind, which is what we all should be.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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I like conflict - someone who challenges me, someone who I can look up to, someone who can keep me in check. Love has to be extraordinary; otherwise, there's no point in it. I just haven't met anyone who's made me feel that way.
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I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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I want to play the Super Bowl halftime show in America.
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week.
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Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
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After my second-to-last record called "The Greatest," I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, not anger towards myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.
