{"author":"Alanis Morissette","author_id":"Alanis+Morissette","total_quotes":48,"quotes":[{"text":"I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.","author":"Alanis Morissette","tags":["thought","true","opposite "],"id":18352,"author_id":"Alanis+Morissette"},{"text":"Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physically weaker sex, we won't get killed. The alpha-woman was burned at the stake and had her head chopped off in days of old.","author":"Alanis Morissette","tags":["women","feeling","her "],"id":53504,"author_id":"Alanis+Morissette"},{"text":"Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!","author":"Alanis Morissette","tags":["goal","paths","getting married "],"id":64260,"author_id":"Alanis+Morissette"},{"text":"In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.","author":"Alanis Morissette","tags":["song","sarcasm","opinion "],"id":69461,"author_id":"Alanis+Morissette"},{"text":"I am what I am Are you what you are or What?","author":"Alanis Morissette","tags":["glbtq","individual","music"],"id":70503,"author_id":"Alanis+Morissette"},{"text":"I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.","author":"Alanis Morissette","tags":["power","eye","child "],"id":111598,"author_id":"Alanis+Morissette"},{"text":"I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.","author":"Alanis Morissette","tags":["life","wine","me "],"id":126887,"author_id":"Alanis+Morissette"},{"text":"Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.","author":"Alanis Morissette","tags":["time","self","mind "],"id":128521,"author_id":"Alanis+Morissette"},{"text":"I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.","author":"Alanis Morissette","tags":["great","empathy","me "],"id":134698,"author_id":"Alanis+Morissette"},{"text":"Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.","author":"Alanis Morissette","tags":["war","revenge","dark "],"id":142811,"author_id":"Alanis+Morissette"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":48,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}