Eddi Reader Quotes
I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
Quotes to Explore
-
We continue to be bullish on China.
-
I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
-
Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
-
I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
-
I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
-
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
-
We just here to do our job.
-
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
-
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
-
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
-
Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
-
To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
-
I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
-
Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
-
It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
-
It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
-
I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
-
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
-
I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
-
London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.
-
That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.
-
I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.
-
The proximate cause of Iraq's unraveling was the increasing authoritarian, sectarian, and corrupt conduct of the Iraqi government and its leader after the departure of the last U.S. combat forces in 2011.
-
I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
