Alison Mosshart Quotes
When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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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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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
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The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people of different religions can generally live in peace. At some level, we all suspect that other people don't believe their own religion any more than we believe ours.
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I want to provide a well-rounded perspective of life.
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The attitude of wanting to win-doing everything in your power except cheating to win.
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When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.
