Anzia Yezierska Quotes
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I come from a very normal day job, a very normal upbringing, so I had six or seven years working in an office nine to five in human resources. I had the normal life and kind of thought maybe this is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life but still had that passion and that yearning for music.
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'If Our Love Is Wrong' is, quite simply, my coming out song, as I was trying to wrap my head around my sexuality and was starting to learn about songwriting, and that my honesty and my authenticity came from my personal experiences and writing about stuff that genuinely bugged me or upset me.
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I'm kind of unlucky in love and I have, for some reason, always fallen for the straight guy.
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I just wanted to sing, to get my voice heard. I knew I had to do everything possible to stay in the industry.
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I'm very keen on making the world a better place, whether that's changing people's attitudes or giving people the confidence to be who they are.
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It is important for me to tell my story so that others feel comfortable telling theirs.
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I met a guy, and we were seeing each other for about a month or so, but as it got more intense, I started to freak out a little bit. I hadn't been in a relationship for quite a while, and I just said I was going away and not sure if it was going to work.
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'No Matter What' is, without question, the most personal song I have ever written and the one I am most proud of.
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My fans have been incredible since day one... Literally, the only reason I get to do what I do! I love every single one of them, and I am still being discovered by people! Just want to share what I do with everyone!
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I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out - the more I started writing, the more there was honesty.
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Just celebrate who you are and be happy with you are. Take all the ups and downs together, as you're only human.
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Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.
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The amount of people that have said, 'You've inspired me to be confident. I've come out to my friends because of you,' that reduces me to tears every time, because I'm just, like, little old me from Hull has had an implication on somebody's life. That's massive to me. Massive.
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I had told one of my friends that I felt like I might be gay or that I just wasn't into girls, and I was abandoned.
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I am so confident and empowered by my sexuality; it plays an enormous part in my life.
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I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.
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To be in the charts and hanging around with such huge names in the industry just feels like a complete privilege! I can't even explain how it feels - complete dream come true.
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If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.
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At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.
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I am doing something I love, travelling the world, meeting fans, feeling confident, and I am no longer restricted by my sexuality.
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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.
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Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?
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The world is a wheel always turning.
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As a singer, you want to connect with as many people as possible; that's my whole thing.