Courtney Barnett Quotes
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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A lot of times, I'll get roles where it's the dumb blonde or the cheerleader, and I just have no interest - and it can be a great movie, it really can - or the mean girl; those things don't intrigue me much.
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Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
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I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.
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Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
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In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.
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I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.
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Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.
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I'm not sentimental. Good riddance.
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It takes a long time for an idea to strike.
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When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a more obvious use value in society. They're not happy with poetry being this ephemeral, indefinable thing. They want it to be "real."
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I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's mask, I achieve utter anonymity.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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Actually, I was lucky enough; I was a heavyweight, so making weight for me was never that much of a problem in high school. Now, it would just be near impossible, because I'm a little heavier.
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Obviously, the more you tour, the more comfortable you get.
