Fiona Apple Quotes
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in a truly multicultural society, the only way to have liberty and justice for everybody is to have multiple parties. And by multiple parties, I mean 50 parties, not one or two.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in a truly multicultural society, the only way to have liberty and justice for everybody is to have multiple parties. And by multiple parties, I mean 50 parties, not one or two.
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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.
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I'm very religious.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
