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I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?

Juliana Hatfield

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Juliana Hatfield
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 27
Autobiographer
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Embarrassing
Stop
Years
Publicly

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People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.
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Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heartbeat' was my apartment in New York City. 'My Sister' was at my apartment in Boston. I remember places and I remember what I was thinking when I wrote it.
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I'm not a very good advice-giver.
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Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.
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At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.
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The is a lot of anti-sexism coming from my point of view as a woman who deals with it every day. I think sexism is a form of discrimination. It is similar to other forms of discrimination. I think people should feel empowered to not take s**t from anyone.
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I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.
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I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.
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I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.
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For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's all I needed to keep going. Now I need other things to take up the other parts of my life.
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Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.
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I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.
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A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.
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I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.
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To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.
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If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
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I don't need a mirror to see that it's true, cause I'm ugly with a capital U.
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The first kiss between two people is something really good in life.
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I like people wanting to know about me.
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