Fiona Apple Quotes
There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
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We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I will stand up for a girl who is being harassed or bullied for choosing to wear revealing clothes. I will stand up for that!
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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When you sign up for a show in the United States, it's six or seven years, generally speaking.
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I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.
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If anything, I'm to the left of Obama.
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I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
