Ani DiFranco Quotes
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them – I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
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I started in improv and went into different kinds of things.
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Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.
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When I did 'The Tonight Show' and Jay Leno was still there, he was very nice but it was surreal. It's like you can't believe you're standing there talking to that person. If you've seen them in a lot of movies or on TV you feel like you know them, just like my fans feel like they know me.
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I am writing graffiti on your body.I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.
