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I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money for so many things that it's easy to look around and just feel powerless or helpless, because even if you have some resources, you can't help everybody.
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How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.
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Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.
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Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.
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I feel like if I were to play the game completely and just get myself in a giant bottle of nail polish and put myself on display, I would feel like I had somehow cosmically lost. I feel like I'm taking a bunch of the ingredients and using some of them but not all of them and shuffling around and making people think I'm doing my job.
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The key is to just focus on the spots where the love is real, because you can just drive yourself crazy focusing on the negativity, focusing on the relationships that are irreparable and just aren't going to work, trying to convince the haters that you are indeed lovable. So much of that is wasted energy.
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The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end
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I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.
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Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.
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The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like Im in the middle of a battlefield.
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Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.
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I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.
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If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me.
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Nobody ever sees me. Thank you.
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