Dido Armstrong Quotes
Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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We are all terminal.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.
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I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
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I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
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After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
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Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.
