Alison Mosshart Quotes

I just sang at first - I didn't ever play guitar before The Kills.

Alison Mosshart

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• I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Friend

• We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Society
  • Fire
  • Sound

• I am really easy to scare, and I don't enjoy watching spooky films.

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • Films
  • Scare
  • Spooky

• It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Hero

• I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Music
  • House

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• It's a sin to be tired.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Tired
  • Sin

• If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • People
  • Life
  • Moments

• I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Work
  • Success

• In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Pain

• I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Time
  • Children
  • Right

• After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • End
  • Taxes

• How can Israel say that everyone is equal before the law - that you're equal before the law - when the law defines Judaism as the cultural, national and legislative basis for the state?

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Law
  • Equal
  • Legislative

• James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Good
  • Important
  • Wrong

• I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Important
  • Think
  • Integrity

• And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Political
  • Education

• You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Him

• I keep saying, the older I get, the younger my audience gets. Because 'Wicked' and 'Rent' and 'Glee,' each one was a young audience, so it's a great thing to have, so then you know that as they get older and have kids, they'll maybe still buy tickets to my shows when I'm 80 and in Vegas!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Know

• I've never been interested in celebrity.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Never
  • Celebrity
  • Interested

• Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Up

• My husband and I met when I was a teenager, and I've been with him for more than half of my adult life.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Life
  • Husband
  • Teenager

• I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.

  

  Dorothea Dix
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Disappointed

• I just sang at first - I didn't ever play guitar before The Kills.

  

  Alison Mosshart