Quotes by Thinking I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off. Alison Krauss emotionhandsthinking I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous. Alison Lohman fameideasthinking But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it. Alison Lurie selfdoethinking There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too. Alison Lurie choiceslifethinking We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another. Alison McGhee bookideasthinking So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue. Sometimes it went really well, sometimes it was such a pain in the ass. Our other rule was that we wouldn't work on it at all when we weren't in the other's presence. It was really hard not to do that. We'd start going on email back and forth, 'What do you think about this, what do you think about that?' But, no, no, no, it had to be live. So we forced ourselves not to look at it except during those two-hour stretches when we were actually with each other. Alison McGhee painideasthinking So we [with Kate DiCamillo] decided to give the friends an object and see what they did with it. The object was a sock and it went from there. Once we got going, once we got on a roll, it became very easy to work together and to figure out how to do it. We would meet for two-hour segments, usually from 10-12, two or three times a week. We met all one summer, and I think into the fall. Alison McGhee summerfallthinking I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends. Alison McGhee writingbookthinking It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only. Alison McGhee girlcutethinking The more nervous I am, and the more insane a situation is, the more I love it and get addicted to it. That's why I love playing on stage. And I kind of freak out if I don't get to do it, because it's a big part of my sanity, I think. Alison Mosshart freakinsanethinking Totally. I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular. You’re just enjoying it, and making something because you love it, and love the people that you’re playing with. I guess everything happens as a reason. Alison Mosshart expectationsbeautifulthinking I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways. Alison Mosshart languagewaythinking I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots. Alison Moyet purposeworldthinking Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists. Alison Moyet niceartistthinking When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities. Alison Moyet finding-yourselfprioritiesthinking I think that you have to experience darkness to feel empathy. For all of my failings - and I have many - I do have a complete ability to emphasize with people. And that all goes down to being "other." When you're young you think otherness is a state only you possess. When you get older you realize, "Actually, there's so many of us." In that we find community. Alison Moyet empathypeoplethinking I think a lot of people try to plan things in their career. They feel like, If I don't get this done by the time I'm thirty, everything's over. But I've worked with a lot of people whose careers shot to the top later in life. Alison Pill later-in-lifecareersthinking I guess the biggest world difference you can make is in people's relations to their own emotions, 'cause emotions rule so much of our daily life, and I think that's where we work. Alison Pill differencespeoplethinking I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to overcome certain gender roles in the partnership - just the expectation of housework, kid-work, whatever it is. Alison Pill menkidsthinking But it's been funny to try and carry the through line, but I think the main thing is the relationship that the band has because we have spent now all this time together that I think that's sort of what we returning to. And whenever we get to play together, it still sort of returns to that little shitty rehearsal space. So that's good. Alison Pill spaceplaythinking«143144145146147148149150151152153»
