Eddi Reader Quotes
I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
Quotes to Explore
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all of the armies of Europe.
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We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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That day, instead, I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighbourhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips and stooping shoulders, or they yelled terrible insults at the children who harassed them. Extremely thin, with hollow eyes and cheeks, or with broad behinds, swallen ankles, heavy chests, they lugged shopping bags and small children who clung to their skirts they appeared to have lost those feminine qualities that were so important to us girls. They had been consumed by the bodies of husbands, fathers, brothers, whom they ultimately came to resemble, because of their labors or the arrival of old age, of illness. When did that transformation begin? With housework? With pregnancies? With beatings?
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
