Joan Armatrading Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
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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.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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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.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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Outside of a couple of times I ran without eating right or being too tired, I always feel great after I run.
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One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.
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Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.
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Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.
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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.
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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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I think I've been through all the phases of the sport. I won, I lost, I got injured. Now I get to do what I love, with my truth, without worrying about what people will say or things like that.
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My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.
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What's great is what Coach Popovich and R.C. Buford and the whole family have done a great job in continuing to build the franchise and still be very, very competitive.
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I am not an African. I am an American.
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My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.
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No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.
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But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.
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All the sparkly shirts and the stage trappings - that's just the performer, the public me, ... Songwriting is the hardest and most personal thing I do. When I'm writing, I'll go into the studio at six in the morning and stay until after dark, including weekends.
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Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.
