Kurt Cobain Quotes
Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.
Quotes to Explore
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
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Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.
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Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.
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Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.
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You're only as big as your last hit.
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Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
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Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.
