Alisa Xayalith Quotes
There’s a lot of pressure on women in music. Even if we’ve done the most incredible things, there’s always that smidge of insecurity. It’s like trying to train yourself to groom your ego a bit and tell yourself that you are enough.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like 'Dr. Who', 'The Goodies', and 'Get Smart.'
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Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
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Life is constantly supporting us and giving us gifts. It's a matter of opening ourselves to that.
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I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
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Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
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There’s a lot of pressure on women in music. Even if we’ve done the most incredible things, there’s always that smidge of insecurity. It’s like trying to train yourself to groom your ego a bit and tell yourself that you are enough.
