Florence Welch Quotes
The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
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But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
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When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.
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We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see; it's the mental toughness and the 'I'm going to stand in here, take this shot,' and 'I'm going to deliver it to my guy.'
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Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it
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In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
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In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.
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The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.
