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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I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.
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When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
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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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I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.
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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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As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.
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Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.
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I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.
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So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.
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I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.
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People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.
