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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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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 crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.
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I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
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I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.
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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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The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.
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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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It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I'm seeing so much of this, and it is a seismic shift.
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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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You know what’s really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.
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I think you can't have this discussion and you can't have a discussion about feminism and the consciousness of the world without having a discussion about what has happened to men lately. They're holding the other side of the bag.
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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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You tour and you work hard and you take care of your fans and very real things lead to other real things. There's never been some fantastic fluke or break in my career, it has all been very slow and steady.
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One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff.
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If you love people enough, they will give you everything.
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The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.
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If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.
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Men find powerful women so threatening, and finding a partner was starting to look laughable, because I would be really attracted to guys and they would just be so threatened and I didn't like feeling threatening, I didn't want to feel threatened, I didn't want to feel like I was towering over anybody.
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When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that’s when the darkness takes over.
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