When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
BETH DITTOYou know how people love to glamorize poverty? There’s nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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Because I didn’t have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn’t hand us enough variety to choose from.
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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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There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
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We all seek approval, and our mother’s seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom’s blessing or not.
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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.
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I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: ‘Everyone’s talking, but you’re the one I can hear.
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With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress – a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.
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I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, ‘You don’t even know how to make a bed.
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Even talking, I’m super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There’s no way I can fight it.
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ABBA was a direct influence on me.
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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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For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She’s a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the 80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
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I’ve had a ton of fast-food jobs – it changes your approach to human interaction forever.
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I love to make people feel like they are taking a part in their own body and evolution.
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As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there’s a great big world to explore out there.
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