Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast) Quotes
Touring is definitely work. You're spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
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I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.
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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
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I train to be the champion.
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I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
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Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
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The film business has changed hugely. You seem to spend about 30 per cent of the time producing the films and 70 per cent talking about it.
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I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants.
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There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
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If you get music on a personal level, you are doing something right. It's not just in one ear and out the other.
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If anything, I'm constantly trying to figure out how to look chic with the minimal effort required because I'm constantly packing. My off-duty style is always influenced by my mood.
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An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.
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I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity - you are more independent. There is not the narcissism, maybe, that you find in cinema.
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Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
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Touring is definitely work. You're spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.
