I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.
Quote by Alanis Morissette
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I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.
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Alanis Morissette Quotes
- Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.
- I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.
- It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
- I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
- Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
- 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.
- Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.
- For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
- I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
- My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.
Best Quotes
- Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.
- Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
- The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
- Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
- In art as in love, instinct is enough.
- My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
- It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
- Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
- Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.