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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My daughter is almost a young lady. She's going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day-in and day-out.
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The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.
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I was surprised to find that I missed doing the musical.
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In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement.
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If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
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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.
