Cat Power Quotes
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I'm very religious.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'
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There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.
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What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation - but I'm not sure it actually has. I'm not sure there's been a huge change in the pantry at home or what we cook for supper.
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I haven't worn one for a long time, but I look pretty good in a suit.
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I work out sort of moderately.
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Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
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Ist es denn wirklich so, dass wir jeden Dreck, der vom Westen kommt, nu kopieren müssen? Ich denke, Genossen, mit der Monotonie des Je-Je-Je, und wie das alles heißt, ja, sollte man doch Schluss machen.
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The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.
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I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
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Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
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When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.
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I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
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You have to be a little commercial, and that's what I learnt over the years.
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Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth. They accept, almost without question, anything you present them with, as long as it is presented honestly, fearlessly, and clearly.
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I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.
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People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.
