Courtney Love Quotes
My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.
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I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
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What I try with my own stuff is to work the poem to a slow climax through a series of quiet painful dissonances.
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Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.
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When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of it, the compromises people come to town and are forced to make, and also, when writing about Joe McCarthy, the indecency and lies that he put forward that people didn't take a stand about.
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My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.
