Florence Welch Quotes
The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.
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I've had one fall that I kind of hurt my toe pretty badly because I slammed into one of the set pieces. But, you know, you just get up and keep going. The adrenaline's pumping, and you just carry on!
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When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
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Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
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I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.
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The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
