Lydia Lunch Quotes
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.
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Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
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The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.
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I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.
