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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“When we first met, I asked how she [Dolly Parton] kept her voice in such good nick. If Parton was ever going to blush, it was then. “Well, I just sing all the time, I guess, cos I just love to sing… ” she said. Today, she is singing with the same vi…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingJillFilopivic: One issue you tackle a lot is the feminist compromise — how far feminists can or should bend to a patriarchal system in order to just get through their lives, and where feminists should draw the line. The same arguments spring up in the…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingWasn’t the collapse of communism supposed to open up all kinds of freedoms, including greater freedom for women? What happened?Agnieszka Graff: The word used in a lot of gender research in Eastern Europe after 1989 is “retraditionalization.” As c…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingHow healthy are you?I’m just trudging along, you know. I wash every day, I’ve got my own teeth, and I don’t dye my hair. All I do is avoid eating or using any products that involve animals, because I believe if you kill them, they will kill you. I must…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingBeware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) via: TheFreeDictionary (April 10, 2008)Art: Earth Angel, not dated, Gil Bruvel
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingBeware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) via: TheFreeDictionary (April 10, 2008)Art: Earth Angel, not dated, Gil Bruvel
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“This week’s theme: lesser-known counterparts of common words. nocebo (no-SEE-bo) noun A substance producing harmful effects in someone because it is believed to be harmful, but which in reality is harmless. [From Latin nocebo (I will harm), f…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingGold Advice from the Oscars”Writer Diablo Cody said she was “thrilled” to take home the best original screenplay Oscar for her debut script. She offered advice to other aspiring writers keen to get their work snapped up. “It is so important to get yo…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Desire is not very precise in my case, so I never choose. The one thing all the men I’ve loved have in common is a strong feminine side. I find feminine men very virile and macho men very fragile. Machismo is a defence mechanism.”Carla BruniIndependen…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingWhenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. Rene Descartes (1596-1650)via: Online DictionaryArt: Paul, Stella and James, Scotland, 1982, Linda McCartney
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingTo Fill an Unspoken Hunger for Community”To comfort the dead, awaken the living, to know the migration seasons of birds and fish, to know the human immigrations of the past and right now,” she says. “To be able to use experiences and transform them ……
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingIt seems to me that the impulse to atone is a religious one, and yet you are a self-declared atheist. Yes, I am an atheist, and probably Briony is, too. Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and th…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingIf there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.I am at heart a gentleman.Brainyquotes: Marlene DietrichWikipedia: Marlene DietrichPicture: Dietrich and Noel Coward, not dated
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“I never saw him take a bath. He was the cleanest man I ever knew, he knew how to wash all the bits, but in 13 years I never saw him take a bath, I never saw him go to the loo, I never saw him completely naked, the children never saw him naked—and th…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingFor a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin….
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Terror runs for king I said. It is better to explore within. We were apes before we spoke of sin. The cosmos sits on the tip of a pin.”Thinkexist: Billie HolidayWikipedia: Billie HolidayPicture by Gottlieb
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.”"Baseball is 90% mental — the other half is physical.”Once, Yogi’s wife Carmen asked, “Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingI still believe in love. I still believe in peace.- John Lennon, 8 December 1980John was really against war. We both were. It’s crazy how a situation like that repeats itself. Peace is so very important. More than ever, we shouldn’t be afraid of saying…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s pr…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingMy mother was right: When you’ve got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.I never saw Serge in anything but a dressing gown, and none of the children ever saw him naked. He thought being naked was the most vu…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingNow & Then”I’d always been with some boyfriend or married. I should have noticed then that I like living alone. I kept trying to make relationships work. Some people are good at it and I’m just not. My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingGrace SlickHow are you?Not too bad for an old fart.Come again?Yeah, I’m a fat old broad, but my face is more or less the same.Has the symbolism of the rabbit changed for you over the years?My parents used to read [Alice in Wonderland] to me, when Ali…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingI’d like to fly… I think my biggest hope is to have a dog and a desk. I always dream about having a desk and not having to move. I see dogs around, I kidnapped a dog once but I felt bad about it and I returned it.source: Perfect Sound Foreverpicture:…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“I want to defend the idea that France will always campaign for peace and for there to be peace in the world — I say peace, not stability. Stability for me is not a sufficient objective. Stability means that you tolerate a certain number of things th…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingI like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.source: brainyquotes.com“It [the Eiffel Tower] looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue witho…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingName something that you truly believe in.KM: “Don’t let the bastards get you down.”Telegraph: Culture clinic: Kate Moss, September 15, 2007Picture: courtesy Popsugar.com
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingAnd New Year’s Eve is very, very important to me.I always work on New Year’s Eve, no matter what.I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it’s in a club, whether it’s in a bar, it doesn’t matter, and I just work on New Year’s Eve because I always feel it’…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingAndy Warhol: So, when are you going to get married? Jodie Foster: Never. I hope. It’s got to be boring — having to share a bathroom with someone.Andy Warhol: Gee, we believe the same things.NYTimes Profile: Forever Jodie, Forever a Pro by Manohla …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingThe Devil You Know Is Better Than The Devil You Don’tTo “A.”2 Aug 55″Thank you for writing me again. I feel I should apologize for answering so promptly because I may seem to force on you a correspondence that you don’t have time for or that will becom…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingAlfred Adler Austrian psychologist It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than live up to them.Pamela Anderson Canadian actress When you have nothing to live up to, you can’t disappoint anybody… When you form a full sentence, you’re a geni…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingJoanna Lumley on Purdey’s fighting style:”If you want a demonstration of my fighting kicks, I’ll oblige - but I don’t encourage it. You’ll never know what hit you! The high-kicking technique is inspired loosely by the French fig…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingYou can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.Jack London (1876-1916)via: Onlinedictionary.compicture: Reverence Series: Muse, 2005, John Sabraw
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“I had a very intensive love affair from 1994 to 1995. It was like a volcano, so I don’t want that anymore for a while.”Nina Simonepicture from the Hulton Archive
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“I don’t know why, but I have such bad luck. The only way I get good things to happen is that I work so hard that the bad luck gets tired, looks away for a split second, and then I get a brief chance to do something. And then? It’s bad luck time …
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