Quotes by Thinking I don't think I've ever really had a home before, not until I met you. Amanda Hocking metshomethinking You know something?" He lifted his head, and when he turned to me, he had this strange look in his eyes. Almost as if he was really seeing me for the first time. "I don't think I ever really lived until this. I've never done anything that mattered before, but now I'm fighting to save my life, and yours. And I know it sounds really cheesy and lame, but I don't think I ever really felt alive. Not until I met you. Amanda Hocking fightingeyethinking A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't. Amanda Hocking wisementhinking You knew that she wanted me to marry somebody else,and you never told me?" He appeared confused by my reaction. "It wasn't my place." "Maybe it wasn't your place as a tracker, but as the guy making out with me in this bed, yeah,I think it was your place to tell me that I'm supposed to marry someone else. Amanda Hocking confusedguythinking I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance. Amanda Holden balancejoythinking People always think that when they grew up it was better. The people who went to Studio 54 say, "Oh, this is nothing!" or "The Limelight is nothing. In our day it was much better." But I mean, it's always great. It's always fresh to the kids. And to me, you've just got to make it happen. You can't be a downer and say, "This is nothing like the roaring 20s." Amanda Lepore meankidsthinking I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive. Amanda Lindhout capacityspiritthinking I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world. Amanda Lindhout healingworldthinking I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible. Amanda Lindhout unusualpeoplethinking The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt? Amanda Marcotte feministexpressionthinking You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level. Amanda Marshall levelspeoplethinking I get by on wishful thinking that when you come home you'll want to stay. Amanda Marshall wanthomethinking I think you have to be guarded but not closed off. Amanda Michalka guardedthinking I don't think I have any celeb crushes! Amanda Michalka celebscrushthinking There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected. Amanda Palmer artistrealthinking I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots. Amanda Palmer blessedcardsthinking I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music? Amanda Palmer motivationinspirationthinking I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed. Amanda Palmer pyramid-schemestop-downthinking I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound. Amanda Palmer simpleartthinking I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running my band and touring and making posters and practicing with my band and working on my vocals, but I didn't spend a large pie chart of my time sifting through criticism as well, and nowadays I do, and all female artists do, because to be able to promote your work, you need to live in those spaces. Amanda Palmer writingrunningthinking«160161162163164165166167168169170»
