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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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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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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I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
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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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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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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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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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For me, if I have the choice between an extra 45 minutes in bed or getting up at 4:30 A.M. to go to the gym, I will always choose bed.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another.
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I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.
