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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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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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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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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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
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I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
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I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows away. Of course you have to make your habits in this conform to what you can do. I write only about two hours every day because that's all the energy I have, but I don't let anything interfere with those two hours, at the same time and the same place.
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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.
