I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
BETH DITTOI’ve had a ton of fast-food jobs – it changes your approach to human interaction forever.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
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I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It’s incredible – Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.
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I’m shameless, and I love a pun. There’s a lot of Beth puns.
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Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that “even lesbians can have babies these days.”
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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’ve had people ask me in interviews what it’s like to have money, but that’s not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
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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 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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I’m passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
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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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I support love any healthy way you can get it.
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I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!
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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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Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?
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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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