Florence Welch Quotes
I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I started off first doing a TV series called 'Boston Common.' That was my first big job, and then I went on to do another half hour comedy show, and that was with Tom Arnold, called 'The Tom Show.'
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The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
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I feel like I've got so much to do, from a music perspective. Jamie's done his record and traveled around the world with it. Romy did all those writing sessions. I would love to do what Romy's done and experience that other side of the pop machine. It sounds terrifying and, at times, a little bit soulless. That's a real pet peeve of mine, when people talk about songwriting in a cynical way. But having said that I still want to do it, just to know what it's like.
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I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.
