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I don't try to make anybody outside happy.

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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.
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Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.
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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'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'
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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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It’s not easy to ask… asking makes you vulnerable.
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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 want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral hippie mumu at 37, show up at 47 in see-through latex, and pose semi-naked, like Keith & co, on the cover of Rolling Stone at 57 and be APPLAUDED for being so comfortable with her body.
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