Alison Mosshart Quotes
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
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God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
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Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises. A broadly diversified portfolio includes large capitalization stocks, small cap, emerging markets, fixed income, real estate and commodities.
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I don't have a car in Manhattan because you have to choose between a car and an apartment. It's that expensive.
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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
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Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
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Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.
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I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.
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We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!
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The love that saves us is not a love that might come to us in the future, but rather the love we can give to whomever is around us right now.
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When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
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Touring can be repetitive at times.