Gabrielle Aplin Quotes

I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.

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• When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • People
  • Alone
  • Myself

• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• Age for me is just a number.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Age
  • Me
  • Number

• When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

  

  Becky G
  • God
  • Money
  • Kids

• All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Party
  • Tea
  • Saying

• If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Great
  • Career
  • Me

• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Confidence
  • Line
  • Arrogance

• A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Experience
  • Without
  • Makes

• Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Me
  • Better
  • Write

• I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Guy
  • Myself
  • Like

• On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Time
  • World
  • Done

• May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Political
  • Feel
  • Popular

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Feeling
  • Own
  • Average

• Before you quit, you have to try

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Trying
  • Quitting

• Republicans know that government spending creates jobs. They just want that spending to be funneled to their projects and districts... and they certainly don't want to say it out loud.

  

  Jennifer Granholm

• I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Country
  • Remember
  • You

• Of course China is an important new market for Tod's, and of course we need to succeed commercially. But I believe the way to do that is not to aim to deliver results in the short term by thoughtless expansion, but instead to explain to the Chinese people what our brand is really about.

  

  Diego Della Valle
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• I can't wait 'til the world embraces Chicago - not only for our talent, but just to visit our city and not be so scared to come to it and not be subjected to what people's perception is of it.

  

  Jeremih Felton
  • People
  • World
  • City

• I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Job