Florence Welch Quotes

I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a little shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other class fall in love with me.

Florence Welch Florence and the Machine

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• After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Performance

• We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Enemy
  • Need
  • Ask

• The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Jump
  • Clothes
  • Camera

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Work
  • Done
  • Perception

• The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Literature
  • Try

• It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • God
  • Day
  • End

• I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Eyes
  • Makeup
  • Lipstick

• I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Happy
  • Like
  • Film

• No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

  

  P. F. Strawson
  • Thought
  • Own
  • Contemporary

• We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Family
  • Know
  • Laugh

• If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • God
  • English
  • Arabic

• These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Everything
  • Read
  • Just

• The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Society
  • Imagination
  • Human

• I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Understand
  • Explore
  • Little

• When I was in Denver, guys came into the team, and we started at a pretty high level.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Team

• Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Wind

• Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They've been through different things in love. They've cried about different things.

  

  Luis Fonsi
  • Different
  • Perspective

• This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • War

• I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Unique
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• In general admittedly the Wise of all times have always said the same thing, and the fools, that is to say the vast majority of all times, have always done the same thing, i.e. the opposite; and so it will remain in the future.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Time
  • Wise
  • Thing

• Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health and finances, their family and friends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Friends
  • City

• I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a little shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other class fall in love with me.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Friends
  • Reality
  • Kid