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 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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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
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I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.
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If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas
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People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.
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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."
