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Ann Powers Quotes

Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 4, 1964

Topics

Women Music Dance Always Been Pop

So many times I've done a CD, and then the week after I record it, I've got this new tagline that's killer. And it makes the whole bit better. It happens all the time. But that's just the process of comedy.

Time Process Better Comedy Week New

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

Marriage Think Like Vulgar I Think

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

Fun People Injustice Want Write Up

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

John Perry Barlow

Relationship Performance Musicians

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

American America True Virtue First

And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.

Stephen Cambone

Time New Will Reason Frame Going

Whenever I perform, people get me because I'm talking about things that people can identify with and relate to. I'm not just up there doing jokey, jokey, joke.

People Me Doing Talking Joke Up

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

Acceptance Child People World Suffer

'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Story Country Audience Up Film Made

My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.

Time Small Leaving Google Radical

The team needs a leader to handle everything with rules and constant stability. Mourinho is the ideal man for that job, and we are delighted about it.

Leader Job Man Team Rules Stability

I'm constantly surprised by human nature and humanity. And I think that's why I love what I do: because I love to story-tell and bring new characters to life.

Life Nature Love Think Human Nature

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