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Jenny Lewis Quotes

I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 8, 1976

Topics

Myself Artist Never Band Always

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

John F. Kennedy

Vision Art Culture Roots Society

I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.

Love Home Technology Social Media Go

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

Work Me I Can Sound Sing Incredible

I have always been drawn to young characters and seeing big tapestries through the eyes of a child. It probably comes from being a father myself and having a young son and seeing the world through his eyes. I write stories that are sort of the exaggerated version of that.

Father Son Eyes Myself Child World

When I was around 16 or 17, I got asked to model, but because I was very 'tomboy' at the time, I wasn't interested. But then I had a bit of teenage rebellion, and I saw modeling as an opportunity to get away from school and parents, so I thought, 'OK, maybe I will be a model.'

Suki Waterhouse

Opportunity Time School Parents Will

But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.

Character World Think You Nice Like

No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

Sholom Aleichem

Shoe Whom Knows

Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Work Time Over Years Effect Takes

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Faith Experience People Color Skin

The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.

Janis Karpinski

Value Majority Even Further Vast

It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations.

Work Challenge People Expectations

We are all affected by the time we are born into, and of course that feeds into your work. Society is based on storytelling - religious myths, opera, film - and 1968 was always seen as a time of rupture and fragmentation. I have always been interested in those words.

Work Time Words Society Born Opera

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