Florence Welch Quotes
I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I'm trying my hand at directing. I'm doing an independent movie that we haven't started casting yet, but it's like an edgy version of 'Lethal Weapon' and '48 Hours,' only with two women in it.
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A time when all such good things will be for all men may be coming more nearly than we think. Each one who believes that brings the good time nearer; each heart that fails delays it.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
