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Amanda Palmer Quotes

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 30, 1976

Topics

Time Creative Happy Energy Sell

One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.

Life Beautiful Men King Book Think

I'm a big Disneyland nut.

Disneyland Big Nut

As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

School Tea Me Giving Hard Charm

The great thing about a sitcom is that you're in front of a live audience, so you really get in touch with what audience reaction is, but also there are lots of elements of film that you're dealing with, and there's kind of a great boot camp or graduate school mentality to it, because you're going to suck.

Live Great School You Kind Touch

When you're filming, if you can't capture the relationships and interplay, that magical thing that transpires between musicians during a performance, then you're not going to have a deeply interesting film. It's vital.

Performance Musicians Interesting You

You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.

Good People Me Ego Criticism You

Where most politicians would have abandoned a supporter like Jeremiah Wright and the community he served, Obama, while strongly criticizing him, did not throw his friend overboard.

Friend Community Him Politicians

I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that I wear to my son's school so they know I'm not playing around. I always tell people that my husband gets a different woman every night when I come home from 'The View.' Hair makes you feel a certain way, like putting a power suit on.

Sherri Shepherd

Home Son Power Woman School People

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

Create Kind Understand Popularity

People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.

History People Plants Think Die You

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Too Much Lost Believing Something

If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.

James Forrestal

Good War Losing Chance Circumstances

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