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Janis Ian Quotes

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 7, 1951

Topics

Me Mom Guitar Stop Said Nothing

I suppose you've got to look like you're made of steel for nudity. You've got to get some arms on you.

You Look Steel Get Arms Made

I don't really base any of my characters on specific people that I know, although my characters are informed by the kind of people who live in my community.

Live Community People Know Kind Who

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

Thought Guitar My Own Fabulous First

I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.

Good Best Writing Think Process Try

It is important to be chic.

Roberto Cavalli

I'm a very eclectic person, and I enjoy multiple tastes; I'm like a bee who jumps from flower to flower. Before I die, I have to make a war movie, a Western, and a movie like Mike Nichols, because I love him.

Luca Guadagnino

Love Flower War Bee Die Enjoy

My mom was a championship pool player.

Mom Pool Championship Player

We tend to think of racism as this interpersonal verbal or physical abuse, when in truth, that is only one way that racism manifests itself. The reality of contemporary racism is that it while it is ubiquitous, it is often invisible, subsequently making it more difficult to name and identify.

Truth Racism Think Reality Name Way

I can't tell you the number of people who pitched something and have no idea whom they are pitching it to. They don't know the background of the investor.

People You Know Pitching Tell Idea

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Stupid Eye Driving See Us Cannot

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

Alone Me You Pen Find Shower

Shopping for an annuity with hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake can be daunting, even for an economist.

Shopping Even Dollars Stake Daunting

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