Courtney Barnett Quotes
I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.
Quotes to Explore
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
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So the lover must struggle for words.
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Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.
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The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can't deal with Ebola or terrorism or climate change. But it's 70 years old. It's tired. It's acquired a lot of bad habits. And often it feels like only new bad habits get added and old bad habits don't get taken away.
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I am not a labor hater.
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It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.
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I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.
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Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
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I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.
