“I have never been part of a scene. I've always been a bit of an island really, but I am fine with that.” Quote by Planningtorock
“I feel that the internal worlds of women are not that well represented by society. It is not an immediate thing people think about - the imagination of women or women's philosophy.” PeopleThinkingWorldFeelsWellsPhilosophyImaginationInternals Author:Planningtorock
“Maybe there is a feeling that women get judged more about how they look and how they present themselves visually as opposed to what they are thinking and feeling. Especially as a female performer that happens a lot, and I think that is regressing even more, which I find really sad.” ThinkingLooksFeelingsHappensFemalePerformersJudgedReally Sad Author:Planningtorock
“I always want to know which tracks are the journalists' favourites.” KnowsWantTrackJournalist Author:Planningtorock
“I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.” PersonsI CanMotherAnswers Author:Linda Blair
“For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and down off the bed? How does her head spin around? How does she throw up?” DoeBookReadingBedUp And DownExorcist Author:Linda Blair
“I didn't have a clue. I grew up Protestant in Connecticut at the Saugatuck Congregational Church. We didn't talk about the devil. That's Catholicism. And so, that was my safety net. And I always say, it's probably a good thing they didn't hire a Catholic child, who may have heard about the devil, the things that were in the closet. And no one wanted to discuss them.” MayChildrenWantedChurchHeardGrewGrew UpDevilCatholicSafetyGood ThingsCatholicismClosetsClueProtestantsSafety NetConnecticut Author:Linda Blair
“We didn't talk about devil on the set. My mother and I didn't talk about it. Billy Friedkin and I didn't talk about it. It was a closet subject. But it was the best thing that happened because I had no idea what I was going.” IdeasMotherHappenedSubjectsDevilNo IdeaBest ThingsClosets Author:Linda Blair
“People need to understand; I may have been very innocent. Didn't understand the devil. Didn't understand any of that. You can only push a child so far. You have laws; number one. And number two; I had been doing this so long, I could say now that I don't want to do something. But after a certain while, they knew when they had pushed their luck with me, and that it was time to, you know, maybe back off.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsMayChildrenLongHas BeensTwoLawCertainNumbersDevilLuckInnocent Author:Linda Blair
“I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes without a PA - where people couldn't really hear me so I relied a lot on physicality and a sense of discomfort and risk.” PeopleSometimesShowsNumbersRiskPerformancesNoiseDiscomfortPhysicality Author:Erika M. Anderson
“I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.” ArtIdeasShowsUsedFeltPerformancesDestructiveFrustratedSlickPerformance Art Author:Erika M. Anderson