Fiona Apple Quotes
I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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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 want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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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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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up - execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children.
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Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.
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When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.
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Rapping is the only time I'm serious.
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The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.
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I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
