Anzia Yezierska Quotes
I tried to surround myself with people who have accepted me for being me. And I want to create that image to my fans as well. And that's the advice I give to them. To be happy for who you are, and to surround yourself with people who are happy for being you.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
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I loved being in a band.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
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My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.
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I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
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I'm by no means an expert at giving advice on depression, but I would say that a lot of my show is about making the decision to be happy. We all think that happiness is something that just falls into our lap. But it's something you have to really work on.
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After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.
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There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.
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The Hubble Telescope can see the farthest galaxies. The Webb Telescope will see the farthest stars.
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I tried to surround myself with people who have accepted me for being me. And I want to create that image to my fans as well. And that's the advice I give to them. To be happy for who you are, and to surround yourself with people who are happy for being you.
