Kim Gordon Quotes
I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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Seeing people catch a feeling in their spirit and sprint the aisles of the church while my cousins played driving, uplifting gospel stuck with me. I let that same feeling wash over me when I experience and perform music.
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As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
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I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
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I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people.
