Liz Phair Quotes
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way.
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I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life.
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'Doctor Who' has a certain amount of showbiz attached to it.
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I usually go make-up free when I'm not working. Because I work so much, during the free days that I have I like to let my skin breathe, but of course I'm girly so I like to put on some blush and some mascara.
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People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
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I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.
