Beth Gibbons Quotes
My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.
Quotes to Explore
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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We are what we believe we are.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
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For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice.
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I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.
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Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.
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I have a huge note on my phone where things just start popping up. It doesn't make that much sense to me at the time, but once a song is finished, I can read into it and figure out who the characters are in my life.
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I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.
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My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.
