Antony Hegarty (Anohni) Quotes
I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement, you know, people editing themselves.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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In the end, I'm really interested in people and what we do with our short time here on earth. I'm interested in the human soul.
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What people don't realize is that China papered over its last two credit bubbles, those in 1999 and 2004. The banks were never bailed out - they just exchanged their bad loans for questionable bonds from quasi-state organizations.
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Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
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'It is so easy a thing to give-only great men have the courage and courtesy and, yes, the generosity to receive.'
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I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement, you know, people editing themselves.
