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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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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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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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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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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The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another.
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Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
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I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I'd literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It's been great. I'm based in New York, and every day, it's amazing.
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I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.
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I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
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I was correct in every call I made, regardless of what managers, players or replay may have said. To me, that's the reason I'm in the Hall of Fame. If I didn't umpire with conviction, I wouldn't have made it for long.
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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
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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.
