Linda Perry Quotes
I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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Being evil is easy.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
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Aristotle was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato…. He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that Plato said, 'Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.'
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Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
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I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.
