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My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!
Alanis Morissette
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Alanis Morissette
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: June 1
Actor
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Film Producer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Alanis Nadine Morissette
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When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
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If someone hates or loves something, then right on. I can't rob them of that. I'm not going to try and change their mind. Something's been triggered in them to react so emotionally.
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These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.
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There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.
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All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.
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I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.
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Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.
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I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.
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I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.
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Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
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It's like ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife.
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Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.
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I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.
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I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
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When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
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To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.
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I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!
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I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.
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I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.
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I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.
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