For me, there’s a fine line between telling a story that’s fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it’s bloodless, a little too fictional.
AIMEE MANNBecause I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.’
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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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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You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
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Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can’t see it any other way.
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I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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I’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.
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I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are.
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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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