I am tired of spending a little bit of money in a lot of pieces because they keep on falling apart.
BETH DITTOMy dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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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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We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.
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The shape is the most important to me because it is what really matters and what’s really missing in the market. Anything else is easier.
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I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
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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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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’m a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I’m very politically correct, although I do question what’s PC and what’s not – I don’t just accept what I’m told.
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When I moved out of my mom’s house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
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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’m passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
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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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There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
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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.
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Products are a must – full stop. I’m sorry to say it, but that bob won’t look so sleek on its own – you need a little help. It doesn’t have to be the high-end stuff that they sell in the salon. Products you find in the supermarket are just as good, and sometimes better.
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Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we’re slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we’re not told growing up, and it’s our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
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