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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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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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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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
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I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
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A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.
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The only time I'll use a microwave is to warm up a cup of coffee I've left too long before drinking.
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The ivyed oaks dark shadow fallsOft picking up with wondering gazeSome little thing of other daysSaved from the wreck of time.
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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.
