Emily Haines Quotes

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• It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

  Emily Haines

  Bother, Deals

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

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• It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

  Emily Haines

  Impact, Play, People

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• I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

  Emily Haines

  Thinking, Political, Would Be

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

  Emily Haines

  Decision, Understanding, Alive

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

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• Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

  Emily Haines

  Art, Perfect, Sometimes

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

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• Certain audiences get the double meaning and some of the references and ironies, but there's definitely been shows where I feel like I'm not doing it well enough for it to come across as anything other than "oh, she's hot and she's dancing."

  Emily Haines

  Dancing, Hot, Irony

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

  Emily Haines

  Writing, Dark, Tunnels

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

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• Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

  Emily Haines

  Sometimes, Dies, Our Lives

  Source: www.killahbeez.com

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• I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?

  Emily Haines

  Depressing, Children, Mean

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

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• I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

  Emily Haines

  Song, Writing, Down And

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

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• That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a certain nudity in poetry. It's not about showing my soul, it's about observations.

  Emily Haines

  Past, Soul, Done

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• You feel like you're trying to show off your cool by mentioning the five bands that you know are great and the five books that will reflect well on you. I can't do it. I should take the time to but I don't want to take the time to do that.

  Emily Haines

  Book, Trying, Want

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.

  Emily Haines

  Art, Writing, Views

  Source: www.sfcritic.com

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• Believe in the power of songs.

  Emily Haines

  Song, Believe

  "Song: "Dreams So Real" ("Synthetica")". 2012.

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• The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

  Emily Haines

  Song, Architecture, Kind

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. But all my extended family is American, I've held an American passport and I've spent my whole adult life in between New York and LA. So I feel like an American... and I also feel like a Canadian! I wish more people were dual citizens and then I wouldn't feel like such a freak.

  Emily Haines

  New York, People, Wish

  "Taking Measurements". Interview with Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.

  Emily Haines

  Self, Order, People

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• You don't want to be conscious of everything.

  Emily Haines

  Want, Conscious

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

  Emily Haines

  Distance, Ordinary, Tasks

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• I like the idea that you would participate in mainstream culture, especially for young girls and young kids who are looking for an alternative. It's not that I'm superior, but I know that my heart is in it more than people who get into music for other reasons.

  Emily Haines

  Girl, Heart, Kids

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• I think a sexual energy is a positive energy.

  Emily Haines

  Thinking, Positive Energy, Energy

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.

  Emily Haines

  Thinking, Chaplin, Jennifer

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• [When] you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve what you want to achieve, and sometimes you don't even know what it is until you've done it.

  Emily Haines

  Order, Done, Want

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• Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

  Emily Haines

  People, Happens

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

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• I think every musician is different, every artist is different, and in a perfect world people would be able to pursue their own path and have the inspiration and the drive to, and the energy and dedication to take their path to its fruition. I don't really believe in formulas.

  Emily Haines

  Inspiration, Believe, Thinking

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

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