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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It's a very interesting thing because I can start mixing a song and leave the room and come back and maybe just slide one lever to a certain point, and it just - it's a certain feeling that it gives you when you know it's right.
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All we would need to do would be to read the Bible and accept what it says as what really happened. That, of course, is the approach to the Bible that fundamentalists take. And that’s one reason why you will not find fundamentalists at the forefront of critical scholarship.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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I wouldn't be creatively satisfied if all we did were sequels, but in the same breath, I'll say that I wouldn't be creatively satisfied if everything was an original. It's good to use the different parts of my brain. Very different rules apply.
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It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.
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I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.
