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- I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but…
- My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process…
- We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise.…
- I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.
- Words are just rules and regulations to me.
- To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's…
- Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
- I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
- I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense…
- I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.
- It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.
- People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
- What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
- For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot…
- I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play…
- It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good…
- More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other…
- People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of…
- Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau,…
- Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First…
- Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?
- When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this,"…
- I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I…
- Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
- What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return.…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale