Alana Haim Quotes

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Alana Haim

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 15, 1991

My mom was an art teacher at an elementary school in Studio City. She was younger than I am now when she was teaching there, and she only got the job because the previous art teacher had a heart attack in the parking lot.

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Paul saw one of our videos around the time we released our 'Forever' EP, and he was talking about it at a party. Someone gave him our email address, and he invited us to his house for dinner. We were like, 'Let's not tell Paul Thomas Anderson that mom taught him art. Everyone hates their teachers growing up.'

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My sisters and I live and breathe the Valley. In the '80s, it got a really bad rap, with Valley girls and all that. I grew up loving it because everyone hated it, and that weirdly made me feel proud of it.

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I'm very L.A. in that sense, where I'm very into star science and horoscopes and all that jazz.

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The energy coming off of Bradley Cooper playing Jon Peters was insane.

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My favorite movie growing up actually is Defending Your Life because I'm obsessed with Albert Brooks.

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I don't want there to ever go a day when the people that I love so much don't know that I love them.

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We're such a close-knit family in general.

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Going through depression is a process - it doesn't get cured overnight. You have to really work on yourself, you have to really check in with yourself constantly. Having a therapist is great.

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Honestly, I never thought that a thing that I do every day - walk - would make such an impact on people, but I guess we're super good at walking. And we're from Los Angeles, so that's an oxymoron. No one does that here - songs have been written about such things.

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I'm not good at makeup.

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I don't think it's a surprise, but beauty was not at the forefront for us. There are some photos of me from early Haim that I'm like, 'What? What is going on?'

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I grew up listening to Tom Petty's 'You Got Lucky,' where the whole theme is, 'You're lucky to be with me.' I never really heard a song that said that from a woman's perspective.

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I've been called 'entourage' at festival. I got on a golf cart this one time and the guy said, 'Miss, get off.' I said, 'I play in Haim.' He said, 'Never heard of you, please get off.' Is that how you look at me, for real? I couldn't possibly be playing - I must be someone's girlfriend.

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We're pretty much the biggest perfectionists.

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My mom is a baby angel of this earth.

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We never wrote songs with our parents.

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I'm the baby. I'm the fixer of the family.

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My parents were in their twenties in the early '70s, and if I could have a magic mirror to see something from the past, it would be my parents dancing.

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I'm a true Sagittarius.

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