Liz Phair Quotes
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
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It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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Metaphysics is a science.
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!
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The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.
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It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
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In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.
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Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
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It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book!
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I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.
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Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.
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It was very important for me to have a ritual before my show, and to be different from my everyday life.
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I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.
