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Liz Phair Quotes

You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.

Liz Phair

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 17, 1967

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Creative Me Think Environment You

My mother had a great vinyl collection, and she was constantly playing female singer-songwriters. I first learned about classic song structures by listening to them, and Laura Nyro particularly stood out. Her voice was outside what you'd usually hear on the radio; that really appealed to me.

Jenny Lewis

Mother Great Me Listening Song You

You can be a namby-pamby leftie, a gun-toting neo-con, or a soft, indecisive moderate. I really don't care. Just don't lie to me.

Steven Crowder

Lie Me Care You Soft Just

I have a message for the youth of America. The next time somebody promises you a lifetime contract, say, 'Thank you. But would you mind putting that in writing?'

Sid Gillman

Time Mind Youth Writing Promises

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

Shirley MacLaine

Pain I Am Think Artist Human Am

In the eighth grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always been an actor. I have always liked cinema, and let's face it, opera singers are just bad actors! I didn't want to translate myself in that direction.

Robert Davi

Path Myself Voice Face Direction

William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was the first Chief Executive to hide his physical frailties.

Robert Dallek

Hide April First Office Month Chief

No man wants more war if he's planned memorial services for fallen comrades, carried their flag-draped caskets off a plane, and buried them at Arlington National Cemetery.

Tom Cotton

Man War More Planned Cemetery Off

Arthur Winslow is one of the great parts.

Roger Rees

Great Parts Arthur

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

Ruth Ozeki

Good Beginning Writing Start You Go

I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.

Lucas Papademos

Think Leaving Greece I Think Really

Growing up, I was taught a man's word is his bond.

Logan Mankins

Man Growing Up Bond Growing Up Word

It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

Jason Bateman

You Kind More Stick Like Approach