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Grimes Quotes

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: March 17, 1988

Topics

Compromise Morals Want Living Order

I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not.

Jessica Simpson

Myself I Am Book Friends Opinions

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Happiness Foundation Face Too Slight

Hard work beats talent, and I live by that.

Jason Pierre-Paul

Work Hard Work Live Talent Hard

I'm not even religious, but I get fanaticism. I get the appeal of it.

Get Even Religious Fanaticism Appeal

Since I'm not a fashion model, there's a limit to how nice I can make myself. I don't regard myself as an ugly person, but I don't think of myself as someone who would choose to be a model. I'm somebody who might be, I'd like to think, a role model for people who want to become lawyers.

Myself Ugly People Fashion Think

I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.

Mother Parents Selfish Feelings True

When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions - though there were not enough women - who were very much more influenced by, say, Asian forms or by Mantra or by thinking politically through their work in deeper ways really stuck with me.

Work Women Poetry Me Collaboration

I had a kind of artrock band called Peanut for a while, which eventually helped me over my fear of singing. That was a big step for me. I never dreamed I could sing songs in front of people.

Fear Step People Me Singing Kind

Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It's closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced.

New York New Way More Jersey Vibe

Take the tone of the company you are in.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

You Company Tone Take

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.

Passion Football Nobody Escape More

I try to choose characters that are very different; I think I have succeeded in that. A big role or a small one does not bother me at all. What matters is that I should have a rapport with the director.

Me Small Think Choose Try Matters

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