Joan Armatrading Quotes

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.

Joan Armatrading

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• I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Doing

• Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Character
  • Understand
  • Felt

• Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Messy

• If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Money
  • Man
  • Rich

• I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Time
  • You
  • Painting

• I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Always
  • Daydreaming

• I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, vain or uptight or mean to people.' People have a sense of who you may be because of the job you do. That's unfair judgment.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Feel
  • Trick

• It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • People
  • History
  • Nice

• Outside of a couple of times I ran without eating right or being too tired, I always feel great after I run.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Great
  • Couple
  • Tired

• One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Singing
  • Mistakes
  • Gifts

• Despereaux did not know it, but he would need, very soon, to be brave himself.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Brave

• Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.

  

  Vanity

• Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Practice

• I thought: 'Gosh, it really has been worth the wait.' And I think had I gone with Evita, I probably wouldn't have been ready to deal with it. It was just the most perfect time to go with that particular show.

  

  Elaine Paige
  • Time
  • Perfect

• I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

  

  Lorraine Hansberry
  • World

• There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

  

  Annie Dillard
  • Heart
  • Learning
  • Rest

• Mirth, admit me of thy crew,To live with her, and live with thee,In unreprovèd pleasures free.

  

  John Milton
  • Live
  • Free

• To remain on earth you must be useful, otherwise Nature regards you as old metal, and is only watching for a chance to melt you over.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Nature
  • Earth

• I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Thinking

• For me, I just set little goals for myself and stay on that kind of track and surround myself with positive people along with my teammates. I just kind of have my goals and my dreams, and this is something that we've all been working for our entire lives, so it is kind of easy to wake up and want to better myself every day towards that goal.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • People
  • Up
  • Positive

• I used to cry on planes. I don't anymore. It probably took almost a hundred agonizing flights to get there. Now, when I take off, a smile quivers on the corner of my lips.

  

  Zazie Beetz
  • Cry
  • Lips
  • Planes

• Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.

  

  Joan Armatrading