Corin Tucker Quotes
I was a really big R.E.M. fan when I was like, in my freshman year of high school. I was a huge R.E.M. fan.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
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If we didn't have Net neutrality, carriers could do things like penalize companies that use a lot of bandwidth or create high-speed lanes and charge Internet companies extra fees to send their stuff over them. That would give an advantage to big companies and make life harder for startups.
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I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.
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When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign of your liberation and your freedom. Then we [had to worry about] AIDS, so they started lecturing my kids in elementary school about safe sex. Sex turned from something joyful into something kind of dangerous, and it was hard to avoid that sense that it was a different world.
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Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.
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I was a really big R.E.M. fan when I was like, in my freshman year of high school. I was a huge R.E.M. fan.
