Chrissie Hynde Quotes
Everyone has their set of problems and I'm certainly not going to sensationalize mine or try to evoke pity or sympathy out of people because I don't think they warrant that sort of thing. That's my private karma that I have to work out.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.
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They are hungry and they needed to win desperately, so obviously they are going to bring energy and effort.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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Everyone has their set of problems and I'm certainly not going to sensationalize mine or try to evoke pity or sympathy out of people because I don't think they warrant that sort of thing. That's my private karma that I have to work out.
