Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde (Birdy) Quotes
When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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My partner has to have good sized bones.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
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Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.
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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.
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The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.
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Confronted by a Church that has ceased to manifest God's mercy and intimate connection with humankind - that has converted Christ into a grim and joyless adjunct to the policing of bedrooms and marital intercourse - men and women can no longer see themselves as beloved of God, only as impure and reprehensible.
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So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference.
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I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York.
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When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.
