Courtney Barnett Quotes
I keep a journal and just kind of take notes. I don't really so much sit down and write songs - I just take a lot of notes, and sometimes I sit down and put them all together.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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I grew up on films.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
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I'm just not very funny.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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I can't tell if I want to be a rapper who's funny because I kind of enjoy just doing really stupid songs about nothing. But I want to have a career that's long-lasting, and I don't think people want to listen to a straight-up comedy rapper all the time.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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Xavier has been the ultimate role model. No matter how far away we are geographically, working together is something we feed off of.
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So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.
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I keep a journal and just kind of take notes. I don't really so much sit down and write songs - I just take a lot of notes, and sometimes I sit down and put them all together.
