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The more I know the less tortured I am.
Alanis Morissette
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Alanis Morissette
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: June 1
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Stage Actor
Ottawa (Ontario)
Alanis Nadine Morissette
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I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.
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I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.
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When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.
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It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.
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I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
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I started making music because I could.
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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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All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were fear-based and false, so I had to work to let them go.
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I do feel blessed to be in the public eye so I can share what I believe. But I think it would be extremely disappointing if I were to count on it to provide happiness. I've come to realize that any time I do that, the fulfillment is short-lived at best.
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For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
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Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.
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Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.
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I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.
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I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.
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I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.
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Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around
Alanis Morissette
I love songs that are very autobiographical.
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I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.
Alanis Morissette
To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.
Alanis Morissette
Kale is my best friend. I eat kale salad. I put kale in my smoothies, kale in my soup. Kale, kale, kale! I feel like Popeye. I love it. I definitely need variety or I get super bored, so I have to mix it up with different sauces and tahini or whatever.
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