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- I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up…
- One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.
- Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.
- In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness…
- Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending…
- Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark…
- 'So You Think You Can Dance' comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows - on this one, you're…
- The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with…
- The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title…
- The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It…
- Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.
- Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.
- It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and tumultuous relationship I'd…
- The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used…
- Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.
- The key thing about LCD Soundsystem is that people always wanted this band to exist. For years, it was glaringly obvious that a band like…
- It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was a time when…
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- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold