Linda Perry Quotes
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
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My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.
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When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
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I am a parcel of vain strivings tiedBy a chance bond together,Dangling this way and that, their linksWere made so loose and wide,Methinks,For milder weather.
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I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.
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Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin.
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I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
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In no way am I a spiritual person. I'm not some guru geek.
