Liz Phair Quotes

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

Liz Phair

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PeopleMeLookAnythingSomething

I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.

Joely Fisher

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I think a lot of the problem is that at 8 o'clock there's nothing on for kids.

Melissa Joan Hart

ThinkProblemNothingKidsI Think

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

John Lydon

LoveHumorWifeTreatAmericanBack

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Andy Warhol

LiveDailyAgeGreatArtLandscape

I'm not really a sports girl anymore - I used to be a huge sports girl.

Soccer Mommy

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John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.

Rocco Buttiglione

HistoryHateFrustrationPeaceful

I've only ever had surprises. My whole career's a surprise!

Roisin Murphy

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I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up.

Julia Roberts

GoodFightPeopleFeelYouMad

I don't want any of my records to sound like one style throughout. That's why I choose different grooves and songs: tunes that are sensitive and slow as well as pieces that are abstract and fast. The approach I want to take with my records is to give the listener a variety of grooves, concepts, and composers.

Jason Moran

StyleSlowChooseFastWantWhy

I never had a plan to be a fiction writer. It's something that happened to me. Sometimes I think maybe it was my spectacular mid-life crisis. Some people buy expensive cars, and I wrote a novel.

Deborah Harkness

PeopleMeThinkPlanSometimes

When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.

Claron McFadden

CharacterPersonalityYouPowerful

There was a very obnoxious phase for Axl Rose. I'm sure if I had experienced as much success as he had, I would probably be a third as obnoxious. I'd probably be obnoxious, too. But not that much.

Britt Daniel

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