EMA (Erika M. Anderson) Quotes

Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.

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• Oh no! What have I done? I smashed open my little boy's piggy bank, and for what? A few measly cents, not even enough to buy one beer. Wait a minute, lemme count and make sure... not even close.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Done
  • Boy
  • Beer

• Wouldn't it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, 'Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub.'

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Party

• The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Describe
  • Critic

• Simply bringing awareness to the process of breathing initiates the release of peptide molecules from the hindbrain to regulate breathing while unifying all systems.

  

  Candace Pert
  • Awareness
  • Breathing
  • Release

• People hate politicians, it's really in vogue right now to hate politicians, but we need someone to lead us into the new world economy, we actually need to make decisions and we actually need grownups.

  

  Alexandra Pelosi
  • Decisions
  • Politicians
  • Grownups

• We're going jogging." "I don't run for recreation. I run when someone's after me with a weapon." "That can be arranged.

  

  Karen Chance
  • Running
  • Weapons
  • Recreation

• I feel as a woman of color, I just don't want my art to be owned by a white man.

  

  Noname
  • Man
  • Color
  • Owned

• Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than any and all others, before them or after them, or they have truly stated astonishing things which they saw and heard.

  

  Simon Greenleaf
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Rain
  • Gutters
  • Soaking

• Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Country
  • Moving
  • Cheer

• In school, writing was the only thing that really came naturally to me, but it wasn't until college that I realized that I could do it for more than just fun.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Writing
  • School
  • Fun

• I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

  

  Isaac Rosenberg
  • Army
  • Patriotic
  • Joined

• Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Audience

• Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.

  

  Anna Funder
  • Memory
  • Reveals
  • Alters

• Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Action

• I'm probably the most sensible in the band.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Band
  • Sensible

• You can't let the highs get too high and you can't let the lows get too low.

  

  Heather O'Reilly
  • Lows

• Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.

  

  EMA
  • Reveals
  • Writing Music