Alanis Morissette Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Running has made being depressed impossible. If I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I'll come back with clarity.”
-- Alanis MorissetteSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.”
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“A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there”
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“We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.”
-- Alanis MorissetteSource : Energy Times interview, www.energytimes.com. July-August 2013.
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“I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.”
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“the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that”
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“I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.”
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“When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.”
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“A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.”
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“I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.”
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“With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.”
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“Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.”
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“What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.”
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“I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.”
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“We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.”
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“It's like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.”
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“No-strings relationships have helped cure me of love addiction. All my life I've been in long-term monogamous relationships. I had to break that pattern by not allowing myself to have a relationship for a year, stopping myself from committing to men. I haven't been celibate. I've had lots of dates and lots of sex, but I haven't been pushing to turn a date into a relationship. This has been a huge thing for me.”
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“Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.”
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“Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.”
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“Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are.”
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“The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.”
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“At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.”
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“Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.”
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“Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated...It was a very unfettered, spiritual experience.”
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“Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction...”
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“Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.”
-- Alanis MorissetteSource : Song: Precious Illusions, Album: Under Rug Swept, 2002
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“When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.”
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“There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.”
-- Alanis MorissetteSource : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.
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“You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn”
-- Alanis Morissette
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