Amanda Palmer Quotes - Page 5

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• I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

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  Trying, World, Belief

  "Sting mixes politics, passion", www.cnn.com. October 9, 2003.

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• Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.

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  Children, Home

  "Song: "Night Recconaissance"". May 12, 2008.

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• I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about. I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.

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  Girl, Bisexual, Thinking

  "Getting Real With Amanda Palmer". Interview with Karman Kregloe, www.afterellen.com. July 18, 2007.

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• How do we let people pay for music?

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  People, Pay

  "How Do You Get People To Pay For Music?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 17, 2013.

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• Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.

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  Competition, World, Collaboration

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• There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.

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  Thinking, Rocks, Degrees

  "Breaking all the rules" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2009.

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• I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

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  Song, Ideas, Down And

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

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  Art, Real, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of your choices, your mood, your body, and your opinions, people find you sexy.

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  Sexy, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'

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  Fans, Twins, Twin Peaks

  "Ukelele Techno Sucks: Interview With Amanda Palmer". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 30, 2008.

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• When you connect with people, they want to help you.

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  People, Want, Helping

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• I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.

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  Home, New Orleans, Australia

  "Amanda Palmer on being a "social musician" in the crowd-sourcing era". Interview with TashaR, music.avclub.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.

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  Kids, Dark, Complicated

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

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  Creative, Energy, Not Happy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hate being ignored.

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  Hate, Being Ignored, Ignored

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.

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  Teenager, Thinking, Rocks

  "Amanda Palmer: 'Thank God my best friend's a therapist'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Meditation, especially for people who dont know very much about it and think its this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

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  Powerful, Thinking, Dust

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• Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

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  Real, Kind, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

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  Change, Death, Time

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• I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

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  Thinking, Giving, Environment

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

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  Song, Albums, Records

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

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  Ideas, Dawn, Band

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• Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

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  People, Challenges, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come — sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected — and it balances.

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  Writing, Support, Balance

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• Thank God my best friend's a therapist.

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  Thank God, My Best Friend, Therapists

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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