Courtney Barnett Quotes

Obviously, the more you tour, the more comfortable you get.

Courtney Barnett

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• 'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Kind
  • Proud
  • Stories

• 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.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Age
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Community
  • Place
  • Individual

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Small
  • Best
  • Photography

• 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.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Country
  • You
  • Financial

• 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.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Girl

• 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.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Good
  • Powerful
  • Gun

• Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Fall
  • Mean
  • Failure

• 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.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Chance
  • Smart

• Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Man
  • You
  • Sleep

• 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.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Think
  • Animals
  • Meat

• 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.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Mood

• If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Going
  • Election

• People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Life
  • Trust

• Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • People
  • End
  • Old

• In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Work
  • Never
  • Advance

• I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • High
  • Uniform

• 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.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • God
  • Different
  • Women

• My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Bond

• When Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan arrived, I told their agent, "They need to know all this." I gave them the 600 pages. I said, "You have to learn everything. You're a cop. You need to know the names." I don't want him, when he meets an alien to go, "Whoa" like this. I want him to know if this guy is peaceful.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Pages
  • Agent
  • Cara Delevingne

• '6 Times' is an attempt to reinvestigate the social responsibility of sculpture. The body in question is a particular body, but it doesn't really matter whose it is.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • Question
  • Responsibility

• I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up. I'm dyslexic and a slow reader, but I could get through the thick ones in days!

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Up
  • Growing

• Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Commitment

• Obviously, the more you tour, the more comfortable you get.

  

  Courtney Barnett