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"I'm not a dancer, and it was very time-consuming. But I met great people, and it was flattering to be asked to be on. You don't understand how demanding that show is until you're on the inside. That is real work. Real work!"
"There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. It's all the same. Lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. They are interchangeable to me."
"I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I was looking for more co-op type things than what I had been doing, which had been completely my own trip."
"The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely."
"We read many books, because we cannot know enough people."
"To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know."
"Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious."
"Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy."
"Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less; we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate."
"Why do they call it losing your virginity, anyway? It's Not Like I don't know where I left it." "You'd be surprised how many people don't."
"You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people."
"People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them."
"Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. When someone seems mysterious, we like to romanticize that he's "deep" or "complicated." But a lot of the time, things are exactly as they seem...."
"It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority."
"Being a powerful woman who also exhibits great warmth is an incredible feat because people think that to be powerful you have to be cold, and you don't."
"If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are."
"People are going to talk about you. But maybe you're having more fun than them anyway."
"When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people."
"Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled."
"Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime"
