Alanis Morissette Quotes

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

Alanis Morissette

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Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints that they had there, they used black bands. Most musicians who amounted to anything, they would flock to Kansas City because that's the place where jobs were plentiful.

Jesse Stone

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The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.

Jennifer Egan

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I wouldn't describe myself as a home run hitter. I'm just trying to hit the ball hard in the gaps. Just backspinning baseballs and hitting line drives.

Andrew Benintendi

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Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

Anna Deavere Smith

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It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

Ann Beattie

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I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.

Michael Gove

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I don't find my life that interesting. The shows, maybe. But not me.

Stephen Sondheim

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I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.

Steve Yzerman

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I don't need no stool and mike stand. I don't need all of that to be funny. I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me. I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.

Tracy Morgan

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Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

Russell M. Nelson

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Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls.

Dominique Moceanu

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It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.

Collin C. Peterson

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