Alanis Morissette Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Nuts Quotes

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

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In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.

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When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take them up on holding the bucket.

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To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

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My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

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Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

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When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.

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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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All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were fear-based and false, so I had to work to let them go.

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When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it's triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about - which I see as a positive thing.

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America's a very traumatized society.

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In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement. I find the hypocritical aspect disconcerting, to say the least. We can show people being murdered on television, but I'm not able to say "chickenshit" in public. At the same time, I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

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I love songs that are very autobiographical.

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At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

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Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are.

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I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

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I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

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What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

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I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

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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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