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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The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.
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I don't want costumes and makeup between me and the audience - I want more direct communication. There's something for me about being honest on stage, and I'm at my most honest when I'm behind a piano. So I prefer my concert performances.
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The least we desire from the institutions of the free world, and especially the US and the countries of the European Union, is that they appreciate our struggle for freedom. We want them to discharge their responsibilities towards vulnerable people and support them in the face of the cruelty of rulers who continue to kill.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.
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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.
