Fiona Apple Quotes
When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.Fiona Apple
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
Jack Dee -
Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
Octavia E. Butler -
Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti -
When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
R. A. Salvatore -
I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
Dana Delany -
I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
Aaron Eckhart
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
Wendy Carlos -
The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
Rafael Nadal -
I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
Bahman Ghobadi -
I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
Rachel Weisz -
When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
Valerie June
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I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.
Gary Lineker -
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
Irwin Shaw -
When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.
Salman Rushdie -
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. Wilson -
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
Barbara Tuchman -
At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'
Harmon Killebrew
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
Erica Jong -
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Natalie Goldberg -
When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.
Doug Harvey -
Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.
Anthony Robbins -
There are bombshells that happen in court. Especially when the defense doesn't share discovery of material the way the prosecution does, and so surprises always happen. Things pop out without warning.
Marcia Clark -
When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
Fiona Apple