Ani DiFranco Quotes
I always feel I have to take a stand,And there's always someone on handTo hate me for standing there.I always feel I have to open my mouth,And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
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Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.
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My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.
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I always feel I have to take a stand,And there's always someone on handTo hate me for standing there.I always feel I have to open my mouth,And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.
