Bee Wilson Quotes
The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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It's a guilty pleasure that things I loved as a kid I now have the power to put into motion and up on screen.
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People ask if I'm concerned about getting pigeonholed. No one asks, 'Ellen, you've done seven straight roles in a row. Shouldn't you shake it up, do something queer?' There's still that double standard.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.
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I don't think estates are grim places.
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The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.
