Erin McKeown Quotes
Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.
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At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
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Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.
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I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport.
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We don't have a particular plan. We just do what we do. This is the only way we know how to do it. We make the music that moves us. We use it as therapy. The songs are cathartic. They're ways of dealing with life experiences and the world around you. It's meant to be as a release for us as it is for other people.
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Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.
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We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.
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Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity.
