Jimi Hendrix Quotes
Sometimes the music people put you into these big, rush things.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much.
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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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I like to do Pilates.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.
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Acting was always something I loved doing, but I didn't know that I would pursue it professionally. I really loved doing plays at school, but I was in a rock band and ended up going to a school for music.
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Women's music is underrepresented.
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My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in Encinitas, California, which is the ultimate place where everyone skated or surfed, so it was a very different culture. It was, like, cool to be the art kid.
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In Tulsa, it was sports or nothing.
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Normally, if I've got an audition, I'm punctual, I've learnt my lines, and I'll go looking smart.
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When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.
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Never waste a crisis.
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I had a really complicated relationship with acting for a long time.
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You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.
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My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
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The way to do well is to do well.
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Values are goals which behavior strives to realize. Any activity that is oriented towards an end is a value-oriented action. To the ancient Greeks, their culture was guided by an attainment of ‘the good life.’ In the early days of Christianity, the ‘good life’ was shifted from this lifetime into the next. Newtonian science and the modern era brought values under rational scrutiny, and a desire for empirical order. Modern capitalism introduced the value of ‘good’ as more production per capita, and ‘better’ as even more production. There is nothing in the sphere of culture which would exempt us from the realm of values—no facts floating around, ready to be grasped without valuations and expectations.
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Sometimes the music people put you into these big, rush things.
