Katy Perry Quotes
I gave myself until I turned 25 to make it. And if it didn't happen, I thought I'd just try to find a nice husband.
Quotes to Explore
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My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Whatever it takes to win.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.
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I started drama in high school.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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This is the writing of Nagiko Kiyohara no Motosuke Sei Shonagon, and I know you to have blackmailed, violated and humiliated my father. I suspect you also of ruining my husband. You have now committed the greatest crime - you have desecrated the body of my lover. You and I now know that you have lived long enough.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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We try to put on the same show regardless of what stage or platform we're on.
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I gave myself until I turned 25 to make it. And if it didn't happen, I thought I'd just try to find a nice husband.
