"In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax."

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Source : Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.117, Pan Macmillan

Jenny Lawson

#Xanax Quotes #Energy Quotes #Normal Quotes

“It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
“The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.”

Source : Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.20, Oxford University Press, USA
“Itâ€™s about a singer who first sneered about my allegedly not authentic style but later she stole and copied it. And now sheâ€™s acting like I am the art project and she the true super artist. My God and people actually believe her, sheâ€™s successful! I shouldn't continue ranting, it doesnâ€™t get anywhere.”
“When you tell women that they are, and you train them to actually believe that their value is involved with, the commodification of their sexuality, then you open the floodgates to this kind of absurd sort of reductive view of a human.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.”

Source : "Roars of anger". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2008.
“If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.”
“The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta write a song today, I have a title" and all of that, and sometimes inspiration just happens, almost like "Sugar, Sugar" and a couple of the other songs. But basically, I just started playing the piano, and I'm not a great piano player.”

Source : "'Songs I Can Sing Ya': An Interview with Andy Kim and Kevin Drew". Interview With Evan Sawdey, www.popmatters.com. February 24, 2015.

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