I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
BETH DITTOI love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that’s great and fits you.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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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’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 think it’s really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of ‘Vogue’ and ‘Rolling Stone,’ and like I think it’s really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don’t, then you’ll never be able to break that barrier.
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Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?
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I hate to do what I’m told, that’s why I’m not good at 9-to-5s.
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We weren’t idiots, but I didn’t have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn’t about not wearing makeup. It isn’t about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.
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I’ve belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don’t know why.
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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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As a kid, I was always mad – just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don’t want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.
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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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Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.
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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 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 find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like “if it’s all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can”.
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