Courtney Barnett Quotes
I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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You were born as the one you are.
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What I've realized is that, especially in Los Angeles, a lot of people are on some kind of path, even if they're not completely conscious of it. I've sort of always been on a path to find more peace, more security within myself. I've always felt like I needed something to help me feel better.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.
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I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
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...talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.
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I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.
