Aimee Mann Quotes
I try so hard not to get upsetBecause I know all the trouble Ill getOh, he tells me tears are something to hideAnd something to fearAnd I try so hard to keep it insideSo no one can hear.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
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Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
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Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
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When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.
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I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.
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The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response
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You need to look like a lady at the Oscars. Otherwise, Joan Rivers will tear you apart. Then again, you aren't really anyone till Joan Rivers tears you apart.
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It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.
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I try so hard not to get upsetBecause I know all the trouble Ill getOh, he tells me tears are something to hideAnd something to fearAnd I try so hard to keep it insideSo no one can hear.
