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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I think institutions that are bureaucratic often try to squeeze from the top down, and they don't have good results on the ground level.
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George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?
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The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one another’s rights and feelings; awareness of one another’s needs.
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Obviously, the more you tour, the more comfortable you get.
