Emilia Wickstead Quotes
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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Health food makes me sick.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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You cannot get involved in debate on 'MOTD'. You can do it on Sky because they've got hours and hours. We've got a couple of minutes. It's a very disciplined show. Our primary purpose is to show the action, and the analysis is very secondary. We have lots of people who would prefer no analysis. We have lots of people who would prefer more analysis.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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There is no forgiveness in nature.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.
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I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.
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I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.
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Of course, nothing just falls into your lap - to get where I am now, I've worked hard.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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People actually really want to see what I'm up to, and that's crazy.
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Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up. I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.
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Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
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I'd like to think we can make a nice, glowing change to British dressing.
