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The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist
Amanda Palmer
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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.
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If you're going to make work and you're going to write and you're going to put yourself out there and perform, you will be belittled, you will be insulted, you will be called a standard collection of names, you will be accused, and you just have to stand there and continue to work and find a way to not let those things poison you.
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I feel an extraordinary amount of sympathy for anybody working at a major label right now because their lives are over.
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Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.
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I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.
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