Alanis Morissette Quotes - Page 3

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• The ego is a fascinating monster.

  Alanis Morissette

  Ego, Monsters, Fascinating

  "'I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing'". Interview with Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

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  Moving, Two, Pills

  "The Hot Seat: Singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette". Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.timeout.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.

  Alanis Morissette

  Athlete, Thinking, Views

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

  Alanis Morissette

  Intense Emotions, Down And, Deals

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• At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.

  Alanis Morissette

  Love, Spiritual, Peace

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• I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

  Alanis Morissette

  Opposites, Fame

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• The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Way, Default

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• I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

  Alanis Morissette

  Athlete, Stronger, Jocks

  "Alanis Morissette's new outlook on health". www.cnn.com. November 13, 2009.

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• I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.

  Alanis Morissette

  Philosophical, Persons, Knows

  Interview With Spence D., www.ign.com. June 18, 2004.

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• I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

  Alanis Morissette

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Self

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• I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

  Alanis Morissette

  Birthday, Thinking, Age

  "'I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing'". Interview with Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

  Alanis Morissette

  Break Up, Education, Ex Boyfriend

  Song: You Learn, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

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• 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.

  Alanis Morissette

  Thinking, Nuts, People

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• I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.

  Alanis Morissette

  Congratulations, Low Self Esteem, Approval

  Song: Your Congratulations, Album: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998

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• No-strings relationships have helped cure me of love addiction. All my life I've been in long-term monogamous relationships. I had to break that pattern by not allowing myself to have a relationship for a year, stopping myself from committing to men. I haven't been celibate. I've had lots of dates and lots of sex, but I haven't been pushing to turn a date into a relationship. This has been a huge thing for me.

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  Sex, Men, Years

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• I think everyone's hungry for the truth

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  Truth, Thinking, Hungry

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• I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Getting Older, Tendencies

  "I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing" by Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

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  Live Life, Writing, Studios

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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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  Letting Go, Identity, Faces

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• Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around

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  Who I Am, Body, Way

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• I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

  Alanis Morissette

  Music, I Am What I Am

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• I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

  Alanis Morissette

  Records, Way, My Favorite

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• I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.

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  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  "New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.

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  Children, Animal, Self

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• There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.

  Alanis Morissette

  War, Compassion, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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