Melissa Etheridge Quotes
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Of course I get hurt.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
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Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.
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I'm a huge poster collector.
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I love girl power.
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There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.
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I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.
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AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.
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American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
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'...But love is like the measles; the later in life it affects you, the more severe the consequences' 'Is there anything you can take for it?' 'Only wedding vows'
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I've been a fan of BET since I was a kid, growing up watching the awards, thinking that one day I would be there.
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Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.
