Aimee Mann quote: "I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that."

The Forgotten Arm. I don't know if we'd do an acoustic thing or bring the band back or what we'd do ...
AIMEE MANN

We recorded the band pretty much live.
AIMEE MANN

I'm not into music as a consumer. A songwriter should share their outlook with a measure of honesty,...
AIMEE MANN

Something isn't right ? I don't know how I know,
AIMEE MANN

I really wanted the record to have a ... feel of an era,
AIMEE MANN

I don't think it's really a term you would come across in boxing. I have a friend who is a boxer who...
AIMEE MANN

You pay to get radio play, pretty much, ... and you get what you pay for. It's not really a level pl...
AIMEE MANN

The guy's a Vietnam vet and a boxer, but he's also a drug addict, and she's trying to get away from ...
AIMEE MANN

Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy...
AIMEE MANN

I feel really special, I do. No matter how temporary it may be. You're only as cool as your last coo...
AIMEE MANN

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details an...
AIMEE MANN

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced ...
AIMEE MANN

The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame.
He might get burned, but he's in the game.
A...
AIMEE MANN

It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that'...
AIMEE MANN

There's a song called 'Frankenstein' (from 1995's 'I'm With Stupid') that people seem to request a l...
AIMEE MANN

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then y...
AIMEE MANN

You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the doug...
AIMEE MANN

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.
AIMEE MANN

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made ...
AIMEE MANN

I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good e...
AIMEE MANN

Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn'...
AIMEE MANN

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
AIMEE MANN

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, an...
AIMEE MANN

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about th...
AIMEE MANN

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
AIMEE MANN

When I first walked in to London, I was so overwhelmed by the village, the sheer volume of people. I...
AIMEE WILLMOTT

Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is avai...
AIMEE BENDER

If you choose something that's really bold, it can really stand on its own.
AIMEE SANDS

It's a fun way for guests to find a great surprise.
AIMEE SANDS

It's much more interactive than just watching a commercial on TV.
AIMEE SANDS

It reflects Isaac's bold, signature style, and makes for a bright, beautiful table. The Bright Strip...
AIMEE SANDS

With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the gra...
AIMEE MCPHERSON

What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and w...
AIMEE MCPHERSON

Lift up your heads, ye people, lift up your faces, too, open your mouths to sing His praise, and the...
AIMEE MCPHERSON

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be fille...
AIMEE MCPHERSON

You have no business being sick-every one of you should get well and get up and go to work, huh? Get...
AIMEE MCPHERSON

We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divi...
AIMEE MCPHERSON

I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we?...
AIMEE MCPHERSON

(Surrogacy) just felt right for us.
AIMEE JOHNSON

In one phone call, you're whole life changes. We dropped the whole baby thing. Thankfully I was at t...
AIMEE JOHNSON

I don't even know how to say thank you for what their family has done for us.
AIMEE JOHNSON

There was a 50 percent chance that one would even take and I think less than a 5 percent chance that...
AIMEE JOHNSON

She's doing good. She's happy to be home, that's for sure.
AIMEE EHLENFELDT

For them to accuse me; it was just devastating.
AIMEE EHLENFELDT

My first reaction to the doctor was I'm going to throw up. I couldn't even stomach it.
AIMEE EHLENFELDT

It's been really hard. It's kind of an eye-opener. It just goes to show you can't trust everybody.
AIMEE EHLENFELDT

It's to give people in different areas an opportunity to preview the races. Each year it will be hel...
AIMEE BOYD

The Galt House has assured us that our needs will be taken care of as far as the show producers and ...
AIMEE BOYD

It's special because it brings the whole community together.
AIMEE BOYD

It?s special because it brings the whole community together. Everything is coming to life, it?s spri...
AIMEE BOYD

Our defense has kept us in many games. It's strong, solid and ready to go. I can't commend my defens...
AIMEE BATES

After the game I told the kids not to focus too much on the loss and try to focus more on the huge s...
AIMEE BATES

This is the greatest season. My kids have good team chemistry and they have executed well on the fie...
AIMEE BATES

We're trying to just stay focused on this game and play this game. We'd like to have a district cham...
AIMEE BATES

I was practically born in Cameroon; my family moved there when I was two weeks old.
CYRILLE AIMEE

I want to be a Bond girl. Think about it - I have metal components in my legs, so when I go through ...
AIMEE MULLINS

It's so much better to desire than to have... The moment of desire, when you know something is going...
ANOUK AIMEE

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.
ANOUK AIMEE

It's so much better to desire than to have.
ANOUK AIMEE

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older
ANOUK AIMEE

It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is g...
ANOUK AIMEE

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
ANOUK AIMEE

The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, ...
ANOUK AIMEE

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
AIMEE MULLINS

I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around ...
AIMEE MULLINS

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've rea...
AIMEE TEEGARDEN

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more c...
AIMEE BENDER

As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Cha...
AIMEE BENDER

The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your ...
AIMEE MULLINS

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't poss...
AIMEE MULLINS

It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If ev...
AIMEE BENDER

But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the...
AIMEE CARTER

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of bein...
AIMEE TEEGARDEN

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'...
AIMEE MULLINS

In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that ...
AIMEE BENDER

At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it'...
AIMEE MULLINS

At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a rol...
AIMEE BENDER

My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
AIMEE BENDER

Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
AIMEE MULLINS

Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The...
AIMEE TEEGARDEN

No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss...
AIMEE BENDER

You don’t need to spend every waking moment protecting me now. I’m supposed to be your partner, ...
AIMEE CARTER

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far...
AIMEE MULLINS

In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teach...
AIMEE TEEGARDEN

If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking ...
AIMEE MULLINS

People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insec...
AIMEE MULLINS

Interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson ...
AIMEE MULLINS

I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, ...
AIMEE MULLINS

I didn't see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hai...
AIMEE MULLINS

I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writi...
AIMEE BENDER

You're always looking for an all-around athlete — somebody who's going to represent with their bat...
AIMEE FOUTCH

My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them eit...
AIMEE MULLINS

I loved my dish towel. This one was two-toned, and had, on one side, stitchings of fat purple roses ...
AIMEE BENDER

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and ...
AIMEE MULLINS

We were hitting the ball hard. It was just right at people.
AIMEE TAYLOR

It was a really good hit. For a second I thought it might go out.
AIMEE TAYLOR

It was only our third day out on the dirt. It's not an excuse but it definitely showed out there.
AIMEE TAYLOR

Every parent who has come through here has wonderful feelings about it. And the kids like being able...
AIMEE SPROUT

We were very surprised and pleased that they'd even consider doing something for us. It will be nice...
AIMEE SPROUT

I think we're getting closer. I think it's my generation that you'll see doing it (running for offic...
AIMEE MULLINS

They have been sticking to the 30-cent range for a long time, so this really shows their confidence.
AIMEE MARCEL

I think they just don't want to make expectations too high.
AIMEE MARCEL

We had a lot of fight in us, but we're struggling. We're in a groove and we have to get out of it, a...
AIMEE LONIGRO

We hit the ball hard. The (box score) doesn't show how well we hit the ball. I mean, we hit some nic...
AIMEE LONIGRO

Hopefully, it (situational batting) will be something we'll be able to utilize when we really need i...
AIMEE LONIGRO

It's a good feeling in a game like (the Oakland game), and there's a lot of adrenaline. When you hit...
AIMEE LITKA

It's nice to get a chance to go out there and show what I can do. (My confidence) has gone up a lot....
AIMEE LITKA

I wasn't disappointed at all. I think we made a good showing.
AIMEE LITKA

It that hadn't happened, Chinatown would have died.
AIMEE KLASK

If all the Chinese men who claimed to be US-born actually were, it meant every woman in Chinatown wo...
AIMEE KLASK

They used the wrong kind of dynamite and it started more fires.
AIMEE KLASK

It's not the earth's fault. It's people's fault.
AIMEE KLASK

You're always looking for an all-around athlete somebody who's going to represent with their bat ...
AIMEE FOUTCH

He's one of those unintentional good-luck charms. He wasn't expected, but he popped over here (from ...
AIMEE DAWSON

Now we can help keep Ohio industry in Ohio.
AIMEE BROSS

They are practically knocking down my door to use the system.
AIMEE BROSS

It's to give people in different areas an opportunity to preview the races. Each year it will be hel...
AIMEE BOYD

I'm having a really hard time figuring out if I just want to do it solo or have other people join in...
AIMEE ARGOTE

When Tim left it was really neat to see people come out of the woodwork. People who, for whatever re...
AIMEE ARGOTE

You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to des...
AIMEE MULLINS

I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it...
AIMEE CARTER

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nour...
AIMEE BENDER

I think dates considered super corny and cheesy - whether it's going bowling or miniature golf o...
AIMEE TEEGARDEN

When I watch 'Mad Men' and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for...
AIMEE MULLINS

Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do ...
AIMEE BENDER

I asked them: Does it hurt? And the scar people nodded, yes. But it felt somehow wonderful, they sai...
AIMEE BENDER

Everything sinful is glamorous these days, isn’t it?
AIMEE AGRESTI

My mother comes from the Dominican Republic, so I have the Latin side in me, and I grew up with Gyps...
CYRILLE AIMEE

Every June, Gypsies come in caravans from all over Europe to honor Django Reinhardt at a festival in...
CYRILLE AIMEE

Summer-induced stupidity.

That was the diagnosis...
AIMEE FRIEDMAN

That's on the podium at state.
AIMEE DAWSON

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than who...
AIMEE MULLINS

I felt completely at home in Mexico - speaking Spanish to my cousins, running around Acapulco and st...
AIMEE GARCIA

I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be un...
AIMEE BENDER

Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's t...
AIMEE BENDER

We need nice clothes. When these kids are moving around, it's nicer to have luggage than carry their...
AIMEE SPROUT

Walking the runway with Alexander McQueen, I really had to dig deep. You're with Kate Moss and N...
AIMEE MULLINS

I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as a...
AIMEE BENDER

He made a good salary but he did not flaunt it. He’d been raised in Chicago proper by a Lithuanian...
AIMEE BENDER

The same earth that made us the golden state made us earthquake country.
AIMEE KLASK

Dear Past, I'm a better me because of you! Dear Future, you inspire me to accomplish great things.
AIMEE CARROLL

When Tim moved away it got really difficult. We had a couple shows, but it was too hard. I knew when...
AIMEE ARGOTE

Have you ever played chess, Kitty?”
I eyed her. What did a board game have to do with this? �...
AIMEE CARTER

Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.
AIMEE LIU

Does it work with sandwiches? he asked.
I didn't move. He handed it over. George was watching w...
AIMEE BENDER

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs a...
AIMEE MULLINS

I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it s...
AIMEE BENDER

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It...
AIMEE MULLINS

and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair ...
AIMEE BENDER

My favorite of all was still the place on Vermont, the French cafe, La Lyonnaise, that had given me ...
AIMEE BENDER

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up a...
AIMEE BENDER

And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it's be...
AIMEE BENDER

From Michael Jackson to Peggy Lee, I like it all.
CYRILLE AIMEE

Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
AIMEE MULLINS

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.
AIMEE TEEGARDEN

I just always really wanted to swim. It was always a family thing: dad obviously swam, and my sister...
AIMEE WILLMOTT

I wasn't even born when dad swam in the Olympics. I've seen videos of some of his swims, alt...
AIMEE WILLMOTT

Every now and then, you'll get one of those days when you're feeling rubbish or when you hav...
AIMEE WILLMOTT

I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have any...
AIMEE TEEGARDEN

I was never part of that cliquey girl drama. Most of my friends were guys growing up, so I was never...
AIMEE TEEGARDEN

Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't ch...
AIMEE TEEGARDEN

Don't worry about everything and really enjoy the moment.
AIMEE TEEGARDEN

I've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part...
AIMEE MULLINS

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV...
AIMEE MULLINS

If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. ...
AIMEE MULLINS

Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is forei...
AIMEE MULLINS

It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for some...
AIMEE MULLINS

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
AIMEE MULLINS

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.
AIMEE MULLINS

I haven't had an easy life, but at some point, you have to take responsibility for yourself and ...
AIMEE MULLINS

I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their '...
AIMEE MULLINS

I'm dating a very high-maintenance career.
AIMEE GARCIA

In 'George Lopez', I played Veronica who's a bratty 18-year-old, and so I feel like it&#...
AIMEE GARCIA

When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie car...
AIMEE GARCIA

To me, acting is like tennis. You're only as good as the person you're playing with, so if y...
AIMEE GARCIA

I have been a fan of Dexter since the pilot. Once I got the audition I just squealed, and you would ...
AIMEE GARCIA

I always promised myself if I ever got the chance to do a 'Flashdance'-type of movie, I woul...
AIMEE GARCIA

Latinos are the fastest growing minority, and we're obviously not going anywhere. We're extr...
AIMEE GARCIA

Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, an...
AIMEE GARCIA

It's so exciting to headline a film. It's not every day you see a Latina carrying a full-len...
AIMEE GARCIA

'Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother...
AIMEE CARTER

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline sta...
AIMEE CARTER

I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I thin...
AIMEE BENDER

For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physic...
AIMEE BENDER

One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching ...
AIMEE BENDER

As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.
AIMEE BENDER

I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing s...
AIMEE BENDER

I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what ...
AIMEE BENDER

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraugh...
AIMEE BENDER

Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then i...
AIMEE BENDER

I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightfor...
AIMEE BENDER

Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, wher...
AIMEE BENDER

I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events t...
AIMEE BENDER

For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me...
AIMEE BENDER

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.
AIMEE BENDER

I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.
AIMEE BENDER

True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
AIMEE MULLINS

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb i...
AIMEE BENDER

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

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I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

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