Florence Welch Quotes

I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

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• Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Free
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• I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
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• Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
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• The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Family
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• You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • You
  • Integrity
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• A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • World
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• Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Create
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• Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
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• So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

  

  Anna Neagle
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• Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Important
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• My mother always bought our birthday gifts.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Mother
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• I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

  

  Adrian Edmondson
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• Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

  

  Dominique Pire
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• You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

  

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• Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

  

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• We need more access to quality health care, not less.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
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• For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Age
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• The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

  

  James Rollins
  • Up
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• I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to sit on people's front porches with glasses of iced tea, and all that happened. I was able to send birthday cards to everyone in the parish and able to know everyone who was there on Sunday by name. And that was what I'd been looking for.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Church
  • Dreams
  • Birthday

• I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Always
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• I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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