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.

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• 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.

  

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• I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

  

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• I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

  

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• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

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• We just here to do our job.

  

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• 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.

  

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• For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

  

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• Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

  

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• Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.

  

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• 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.

  

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• I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.

  

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• 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.

  

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• I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.

  

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• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

  

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• For me, a lot of my work has dealt with what it means to be at the center of the universe and how alienating and kind of seductive it is. A lot of my work is very aggressive and very visual, but at the same time, it has a lot of tension in it and makes you kind of uncomfortable sometimes.

  

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• I remember when I heard 'Jessie's Girl' for the first time, I was like, 'This is so applicable to lesbians!'

  

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• 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.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Time
  • Born
  • Jazz