Avey Tare (David Michael Portner) Quotes
Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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I was a tomboy.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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Golf is played with the arms.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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I certainly know that I owe it the Copernican theory this duty, that as I have attested it as true in my deepest soul, and as I contemplate its beauty with incredible and ravishing delight, I should also publicly defend it to my readers with all the force at my command.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
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Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."
