Courtney Love Quotes
I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.
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I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I can't.
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If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.'
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Some nightlife places, people aren't there for the music, and it's depressing. I'm not just a club DJ; I am a producer, and I'll only DJ when the crowd is there to enjoy the music.
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When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.
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I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across.
