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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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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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, is about my families: the family I was blessed to be born into, and the family of friends, mentors and allies that I found when I moved to the United States at 12, a Filipino kid trying to make sense of my new home in America.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
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I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
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When you celebrate a new idea, it immediately comes through the way you hold yourself and the clothes you wear.
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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.
