Keren Ann Quotes
I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
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I've always found diversity more interesting than specialisation. I like mixing it up across years, within days, within weeks - that's what stimulates me, gives me energy.
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I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.
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A man is an island, but the water is deep And the shore on the other side is ragged and steep To look for perfection is a lonely old ride It takes a whole lot of courage and a whole lot of pride When you look for independence and you get what you want How come you look back, thinking what have I done? But time and again, it dawns on me It's the price we pay for liberty I should have know, we all need a place to call home
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
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I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.
