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'm a hundred percent a rock n' roll guy.
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Led Zeppelin didn't get that kind of Beatles screaming. We had a more sort of macho crowd. But I remember once in the early days of The Yardbirds, we were playing on an ice rink, and the stage was mobbed by screaming girls. I had my clothes torn off me. That's a really uncomfortable experience, let me tell you.
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I don't take life so seriously... I can just play with life.
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The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.
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I kind of consider myself... I mean, I try to have my comedy be accessible, and if people are paying $30 to see me in a theater and they want to have their picture taken with me, it's not the end of the world. It's one of those things, where I'm not the only comic who does it. A lot of comics do it. If I'm doing a 4,000-seat venue, it might be a little bit of a different task, but it's all good.
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Obviously, the more you tour, the more comfortable you get.
