Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music – well, still not knowing how to play music.
BETH DITTOWe have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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Get a Job’ is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.
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I never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn’t a lot of academic language being thrown around my house.
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Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that’s what you’re feeling?
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When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so’s head, it’s tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but DO NOT BE FOOLED. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
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I’m naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn’t get through at least a pencil a month.
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I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You’re constantly learning how to be confident, aren’t you?
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I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, “What you think about me is none of my business.”
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I’m a great believer in karma and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
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This is how I feel about everything that’s out of your control: once you make a record, it’s not yours anymore. There’s nothing you can do. It’s the way I feel about political movements – both of those things grow on their own.
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This archaic idea – that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural – will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.
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Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?
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I just like food too much, and I don’t want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it … I don’t want to look like Britney Spears, I just don’t want to. She’s hideous.
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Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
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I don’t have a good attention span and can’t spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
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I’m like cheddar: Yes, other cheeses are more ooh la la, but I’m strong, mature, and oh so delicious.
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