Amanda Hocking Quotes
People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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Much of the music is a Merzbild, put together from whatever came to hand. I mean, for example...the Alberti-bass horn solo accompanying the Messenger. I also mean the fusion of such widely divergent types of music as the Folies Bergeres tune at No. 40 ('The girls enter, kicking') and the Wagnerian 7th-chords at Nos. 58 and 74.'
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If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.
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I purchased a whole case of these filters.
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No one cares about your logo, nor the font size that's on your site.
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People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.
