Ingrid Michaelson (Ingrid Ellen Michaelson) Quotes
Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something amazing about sharing that experience with someone else.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.
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I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
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And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.
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Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
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I'm not a guy that ever got in a fight on the street and with the public and everybody.
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I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
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I'm a hippie child of the '60s. What drives me crazy about mass media entertainment is that it's so often devoid of any ideas.
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I was introduced to cannabis when I was 16. I realized the similarity to the mystical experiences I'd had - the enhancing of senses, the way it made thought more interesting. In 1965, before it became illegal, I was introduced to LSD. I thought it was extraordinary.
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There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.
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Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.
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Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something amazing about sharing that experience with someone else.
