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As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

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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
Anorexic
Teen
Bulimic
Anorexics

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Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.
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I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.
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I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
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They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.
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Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.
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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 we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.
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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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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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The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.
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When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
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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 saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
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When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it's triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about - which I see as a positive thing.
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