Marissa Moss Quotes
Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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Only silence perfects silence.
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While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
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I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.
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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.
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Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.
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Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!
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Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.
