Alison Mosshart Quotes
When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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I've always given presidents the benefit of the doubt on their nominees.
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It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.
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I came to L.A. for pilot season, and it was so brutal. So brutal. But still, I just want to be making forward progress. There's lots of ideas about being a superstar. But my idea of being a superstar is just going forward and having new challenges and trying out new things.
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I love to work. I know that sounds ridiculous to say because all people love to work, but I love the homework that goes into acting. I love figuring out different ways of playing a scene. I love the energy of being on set. I love not getting enough sleep because I have to wake up early in the morning.
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And you, whiner, who wastes your time
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When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
