Exene Cervenka Quotes
I don't want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep 'em the same. I'd like to write more country songs, but other than that, I'm pretty good where I am.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Be comfortable. I think if you're comfortable, you exude confidence, and that leads to good style.
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It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.
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It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.
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Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.
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It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
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Looks is a matter of perception. At Cannes, Europeans think I am good looking, while in India, I am not.
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I attempt to surf. I'm not as good as anyone else in the water. I'm more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.
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No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job....Poetry..remains one person talking to another....no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic.
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The first rule of good theatre is 'Show, don't tell.' It applies to good political action as well.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.
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I don't want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep 'em the same. I'd like to write more country songs, but other than that, I'm pretty good where I am.
