Courtney Barnett Quotes
I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.
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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 had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
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It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.
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If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat.
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Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.
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The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.
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I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.
