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I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
Amanda Palmer
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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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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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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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I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.
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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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I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.
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I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about. I've slept with girls I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.
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If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me.
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When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.
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It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming that I have had all my life about who I am supposed to be and how I'm supposed to look and that I'm supposed to win. It's a daily deconstruction of all that bullshit.
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I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being told what to do. But like any artist or any human being out there, I desperately want to be loved, and I spend my entire life trying to balance those two facts.
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The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.
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If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come — sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected — and it balances.
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The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.
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You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.
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If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow.
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I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
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You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is getting talked about.
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When we really see each other, we want to help each other.
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While we're over here blocked up in our departments and locked up in our own judgments and dealing with our own crazy problems, they're over there dealing with equivalent problems. One of the things that I am so frightened by lately is that men are having just as difficult a time striking a balance as we are.
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