My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character – I am that character… It’s a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I’ve put them all to work onstage.
BETH DITTOWhen you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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I said to my teacher, ‘I can’t be a singer because I’m not pretty enough, and I’m fat.’ And she looked at me and said, ‘Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.’ That changed my life forever!
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I think if the world were a fair and just place, there wouldn’t even need to be a gay label.
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I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
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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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Barack Obama was amazing, but he wasn’t perfect. We all know that. He was the closest thing to perfect America’s ever had. We were basking in the glow. We forgot that there’s always going to be a backlash within a movement every time.
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I’m 90% performer, 10% musician. I’ve always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.
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I’m shameless, and I love a pun. There’s a lot of Beth puns.
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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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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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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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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 love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that’s great and fits you.
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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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True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
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