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If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.

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Kim Gordon
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 28
Actor
Fashion Designer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Visual Artist
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Rochester
New York
Kim Althea Gordon
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Twitter reminds me of an era in French literature - Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac - and the beginning of modernity and gossip. They had these fashion magazines of the time on display with all of the Emile Zola references.
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Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other.
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I think of myself as unconventional. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.
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Fashion, at modern time, was actually a way for women to go out in the world. There was one painting of a woman sitting at a café, drinking a beer by herself and kind of pretending to read but really watching people, that sort of thing. It fascinated me.
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Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.
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I'm aware of how pop culture really infiltrates your expectations in a way that even if you think you're savvy about pop culture, it's so hard not to have these expectations of what a relationship should be. So I constantly feel like I have to bat those expectations down.
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Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.
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For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.
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Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think
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Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.
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I always wanted to rebel.
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I really want to start playing basketball. Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.
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The love for a child is more an unconditional sort of love ... Although some parents are really narcissistic. In general, I think there is an expectation that love will be unconditional, but obviously it's not - even after living with someone for years.
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I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.
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Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s. They came over in the Gold Rush, actually. I have all this guilt about raising my daughter in the East. Coco's very anti-California. It's her way of rebelling.
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You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of needing to please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men.
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Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.
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Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.
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Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.
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People pay to see others believe in themselves.
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