"If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold."

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Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Skin Divers”, p.20, McClelland & Stewart

Anne Michaels

#Stars Quotes #Blood Quotes #Want Quotes

“There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought in the lyrics and to have songs that were about stuff - to try to make things more coherent.”

Source : "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.
“I changed my hopes to being a singer [when I was a child] and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac Davis songs. Writing was sort of a last stand. Come to think of it, it was the only "talent" I had that anyone asked for more of.”

Source : Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com
“We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom- war on terror and so on-falsifies freedom.”
“No fashion is ever a success unless it is used as a form of seduction.”
“My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Markets are not, in my opinion, a full solution to any problem. The obvious problem they don't meet is the concerns of the welfare of individuals who may get lost in the operation of the system - the distributional question. We've seen this growing as we go further and further toward a market ideology in the United States and the United Kingdom. We've seen a decline in the welfare of the working poor, leaving aside any other pathologies, just the working poor, a very distinct increase at the very top levels.”

Source : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org
“To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.”
“I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.”

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