Linda Perry Quotes
I'm a fast learner, and I believe in change, and I believe in growing, and I believe in moving forward and not staying in the same place.
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
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I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
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I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
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I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.
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Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor.
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My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and families moving together.
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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I never prepare. I think that's completely overrated. It's a very simple job. All you have to do is hit this bright mark, stand in the right spot and say the line. So I don't really believe in preparation.
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Citizens United, I believe, will be regarded by history as one of the worst decisions this Supreme Court - or any Supreme Court - has ever made. It is distorting our political process and corrupting our government.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.
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The archetype of male hero is so boring. And the pretty, boobed woman is so... boring.
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I'm a fast learner, and I believe in change, and I believe in growing, and I believe in moving forward and not staying in the same place.
