Alanis Morissette Quotes
Sometimes I feel more bigness than I've shared with you Sometimes I wonder why I quell when I'm not required to
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
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Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
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I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely.
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California is an Italy without its art.
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Sometimes I feel more bigness than I've shared with you Sometimes I wonder why I quell when I'm not required to
