Joan Armatrading Quotes

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

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• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

  

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• But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

  

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• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

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• I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

  

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• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

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• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  

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• Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

  

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• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

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• The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
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• Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.

  

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• The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

  

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• I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.

  

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• I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.

  

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• Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

  

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• Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

  

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• To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.

  

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• For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

  

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• Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

  

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• I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.

  

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• Back in the day, we ate fresh; our parents cooked. Now, we're starting to think things are fresh because they're in a can, they're in a box, or they're frozen. That's not fresh. It's difficult to get real fresh.

  

  Kym Whitley
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• We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.

  

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• At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.

  

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• This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

  

  Joan Armatrading
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