But I can’t confront the doubts I have. I can’t admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I’m condemning the future to death so it can match the past.
AIMEE MANNIn the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.
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What’s interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren’t interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict – or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.
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It’s in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I’ll write it down in case it comes up again, I’ll be certain to avoid it.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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When I grew up in the ’70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn’t think you had a choice.
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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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It’s funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can’t even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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