Zola Jesus Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.
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I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
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All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
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People look at me, and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. I always thought I'd be the white person in a black play.
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I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.
