Alice Notley Quotes
We name us and then we are lost, tamed. I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness.
Quotes to Explore
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.
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I've always loved fashion, but it's not what I set out to do.
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It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.
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I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, Through belief in the Thrones, Through confession of the Oneness Towards the Creator.
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Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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'Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies....Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things.'
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The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.
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I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.
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There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.
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Get a good jean, a good tee, a good whatever because you can just switch that stuff up and you have like 8,000 different outfits with a few things.
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I've always felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not speech, not art, not dance, not anything else.
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It's always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated.
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We name us and then we are lost, tamed. I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness.
