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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.
Alanis Morissette
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Alanis Morissette
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: June 1
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Alanis Nadine Morissette
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In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.
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What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?
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Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.
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