Gabrielle Aplin Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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We always trend set.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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There was only one thing of which he could be certain now. Boredom would not be a serious problem for a considerable time to come.
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Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.
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Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.
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One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
