Q'orianka Kilcher Quotes
My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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I'm not politically correct.
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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Have you seen some of the women - and the men - in Los Angeles? They pay surgeons to make them look completely different in the hope of finding their youth. But youth comes from within. If you have a young attitude, then that can show in your face, the way you walk and move.
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You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.
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Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
