Fiona Apple Quotes
I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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A hard man is good to find.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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I think most people's record collections are more interesting than radio generally gives them credit for. You're likely to be as interested in the Grateful Dead as Palestrina. It pisses me off how compartmentalised music is. I used to be in a punk band, you know?
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The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.
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I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.
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I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time.
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To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.
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I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.
