Fiona Apple Quotes
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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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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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
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A bad memory is the mother of invention.
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A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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Don't waste your crazy!
