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Alanis Morissette Quotes

I've always been really opinionated, and mixed with being really open hearted, open to people shifting what I think all the time, but I like to speak with conviction.

Alanis Morissette

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: June 1, 1974

Topics

Time People Speak Think Always Open

Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different.

Joe Lhota

First Be The First Different Would

I don't start fights, but sometimes I don't walk away from them. It hasn't happened in a long time, but it's happened, and I regret those times. I should have been more in control of myself, stronger, more adult.

Jim Brown

Time Myself Walk Control Start Long

I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

Jessie J

You Artist Play Sometimes Hard Also

As long as there's really good actors that use their clout to support fringe films, whatever genre it is, they'll still get made.

John Curran

Good Support Long Whatever Get Made

I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what?

Ann Patchett

Nature I Am People Think Thoughtful

If you want a dancer's body, dance. Dance aerobics is my favourite cardio. It's very frustrating if people think you have to become a dancer to do it - you don't.

Tracy Anderson

Dance People Think You Body Want

I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we'd both outgrown the only relationship we could have had to each other. I was over 30 by the time I met him again and no longer needed a father.

Mona Simpson

Father Relationship Time Childhood

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

Judith Viorst

Children Parents Believe Better Than

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

Jay-Z

Walk King Fly Run Martin Luther King

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?

Jose James

Music Art Being Different Think You

I admire Miken's exceptional engineering capabilities and was drawn to their passion for hockey and drive to be the best in all they do.

Brett Hull

Passion Best Drive Hockey Admire

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

Peter Tork

Music Energy You Late Accountant