Cat Power Quotes
Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It's exhausting. You have to force-feed. You have to force yourself to eat food.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
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You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
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The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.
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What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
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Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.
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Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.
