Fiona Apple Quotes
I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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No two wars are identical.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.
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And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.
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When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.
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Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say 'first alarm clock' because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.
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I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
