Lissie Quotes

#1. I'm 33, my generation, when I was young, we'd go out into the woods for the entire day and come back for dinner. I was definitely a kid of the '80s, who was out and about.

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#2. I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.

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#3. Because I can isolate and be a bit of a loner, [my ideal] is finding some sense of community where I'm one of many and where my skills are equally as important and valuable.

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#4. The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.

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#5. You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.

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#6. I'll always want to play and share my music with as many people as I can, but the emphasis is more on how do I find a happy place, what's my balance, what's my ideal.

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#7. I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.

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#8. I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy little nest where I drink my wine and watch my Netflix.

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#9. I'm strong and I can do things that scare me. I can drive in the snow even though it terrifies me. I'm doing it all alone, I don't have a boyfriend, it was like, "I can do this."

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#10. For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.

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#11. I want to push myself to be brave and out of my comfort zone, but I guess I stay in my comfort zone knowing I have my family close by.

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#12. Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.

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#13. I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.

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#14. [My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop on a plane and go sing to people in Norway.

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#15. I keep re-watching Friends. It's so dumb. There's so much good TV and I'm really into all of it.

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#16. Sometimes people think, "You don't get to have it all, you don't get to be happy, life's a struggle," but what if it's not?

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#17. Iowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers.

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#18. I'm really close to my family. As I get older, it's like they're the only people I really talk to.

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#19. I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in high school we would go drink kegs in cornfields.

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