Courtney Barnett Quotes
I just get bored really quickly and want to push myself to the next level.
Courtney Barnett
Quotes to Explore
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
Orhan Pamuk
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Samuel Johnson
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
Fedor Emelianenko
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No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.
Lajos Egri
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
Ian Mckellen
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As a franchise, we don't have any different expectations than anyone else.
Dan Gilbert
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In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.
Taylor Hawkins
Foo Fighters
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I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.
Sam Smith
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I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
Umberto Eco
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For Komen, for myself, the mission was always foremost in everyone's mind. The mission and the women that we serve. The only group that made this issue political has been Planned Parenthood.
Karen Handel
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I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever I had 20 minutes, I would practice a new chord or write a new verse.
Valerie June
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Feminism is alienating women from their own bodies … because they don’t understand that they have something that men want, okay? So they’re encouraged to interpret all male lust as oppressive and victimizing and negative, instead of seeing that it is up to them to husband this flame. They have a flame, and it’s enormously powerful…
Camille Paglia
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I have to tell you, I'll be right up front about it: I'm the governor of the state of Connecticut, and I can't write anything well.
Dannel Malloy
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I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.
John Baldessari
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I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.
Nancy Crow
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For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.
Chris Moneymaker
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I just get bored really quickly and want to push myself to the next level.
Courtney Barnett
