#yin

I get angry at myself for staying in relationships way too long. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#get #i #long #myself #relationships

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#fit #i #i can #long #melody

I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#always #artistic #buying #condo #department

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#dancing #expression #form #i #involved

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha! ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#being #brother #fate #friends #him

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

#decade #default #disappointed #invested #likely

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#could #doing #else #entertainment #entertainment industry

I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#been #better #big #crazy #everything

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#accustomed #act #anger #crying #cult thing

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#back #forever #get #memory #perfect