Ann Reed Quotes
When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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Chelsea are a big club - we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There's a lot to do, but we'll try to do it all.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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There's no wrong time to make the right decision.
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People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.
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Let me be absolutely clear: I think it is defeatist to sort of say we want to leave the European Union. We're going to try and change the rules and change the way it works and change the objectives that it has in order to make it something that works for Britain.
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I carry in my right hand war, and peace in my left... Here is a bloody belt and a white one. Take which you please.
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So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.
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I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
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When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!
