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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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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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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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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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'm a huge fan of Eighties music.
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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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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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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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They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.
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It's time to reintroduce Americans to America.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
