Astrid S Quotes
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People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.
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The writer is all alone.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
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I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.
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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
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I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches.
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He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.
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My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron...and a lot like Patrick Ewing.
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Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.
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A sensible human once said, 'If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit'; and again, 'She's the sort of woman who lives for others-you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.'
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One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
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Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.
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I am not interested in trying to convince and change the mind of a bigot.
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As much as a disappointment this was, I can only learn from it and become a better fighter.
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There is no such thing in America as an independent press. I am paid for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with.
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I was really into Britney Spears when I was little.
