Joanna Newsom Quotes
I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
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I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
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An author's ability to bring a marketing synopsis to the table - along with a great manuscript - makes a difference in what books get picked up. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction titles. You need to show your publisher what you've got in your marketing arsenal.
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It's a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck!
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I've made it a policy to move every five years, either physically or in my research.
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Jealousy’s a weak emotion.
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We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.
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I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.
