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 an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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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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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.
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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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I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.
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At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.
