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My sexuality's very fluid, and my gender is very fluid.

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• I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Like
  • Dark

• I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

  

  Karen O
  • Really
  • Bass
  • Ace

• If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • American
  • Culture
  • New

• Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Memories

• I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Up
  • Running
  • Hand

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Human Nature

• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Logic

• The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Hate

• My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there's this monster - this tiger or lion - that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't matter if they become men or women.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stop

• There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • People
  • Want
  • Fortune

• The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Character
  • Action

• When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
  • Home
  • Education

• Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Help
  • Future
  • Water

• I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pain

• I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Music
  • American

• Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Yourself
  • Communication

• My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Never
  • Finish
  • Grandfather

• At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

  

  Jane Hirshfield
  • Life
  • Experience

• When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy.

  

  Emily Browning
  • Money

• Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Heart
  • Poison
  • Occupied

• Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.

  

  George Jung
  • America
  • President
  • Youth

• A huge thing for me growing up was going to see my favorite bands and feeling like, 'Okay, cool, they proved themselves and did things in a special way.' That's the most important thing.

  

  Kellin Quinn
  • Up
  • Important
  • Feeling

• My sexuality's very fluid, and my gender is very fluid.

  

  Amandla Stenberg