Joanna Newsom Quotes
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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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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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.
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I subconsciously mimic whomever I'm talking to, so I've been mistaken for a Canadian, a South American, and somebody from the West Country.
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When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
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When I started forming my own taste, there was a period in high school when I listened to only rap and hip-hop, like A Tribe Called Quest.
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Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.
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I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
