#sm

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#body #both #carving #directions #eye

Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#america #europe #harsh #i #little

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#away #being #communicate #daily #daily lives

In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#beauty #bones #defined #i #la

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#humor #i #i think #in my opinion #into

You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff. ↗

— Pat Morita

#cutting #easier #feel #grass #heard

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#day #dismal #gloomy #i #just

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#anything #call #child #effort #habit

Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood. ↗

— Dick Morris

#areas #between #distinction #does #eras

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good. ↗

— Van Morrison

#criticism #good #i #i do #most