Linda Perry Quotes
If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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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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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.
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I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, 'I'm not young and fabulous anymore.' But, immediately, there was a voice that said, 'No, you can be older and fabulous.' In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way.
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Creativity is achieved in the doing, it's not achieved in the thinking.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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We have been criticized, a little bit to my surprise, by people who think I was not enough pro-war. That is simply not the way I think of this role. This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public. I think people who have done this and all jobs in journalism have believed that.
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If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple.
