Fiona Apple Quotes
Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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My education was very tough.
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I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.
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I think there are all kinds of aspects to reality, to domestic reality, and why don't we just talk about them all?
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Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.
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Products can introduce more complexity over time, but as far as launching and introducing a new product into the market, it's a marketing problem. You have to explain everything you do, and people have to understand it, within seconds.
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We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
