Diamanda Galas famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist--I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white or black, if he is middle-class or poor, if his mother hung him from the clothesline by his balls: I only want to kill him! Any woman who has been raped will agree.
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I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"
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It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.
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If you think I wear the cloak of filth, then let me tell you baby, I wear it real good.
-- Diamanda Galas
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Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.
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Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick
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Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.
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Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
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And let her think I don't care she's with you? No can do. She needs to know what I want
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This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.
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I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!
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You have to care for all beings created by God...My mission is to help any person in need.
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Public property has the same standing with me as that of an orphan; if it is much, it must be conserved, and if it is little, it must be used with care.
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