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.
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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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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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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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Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.
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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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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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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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Memory politics are by definition political and shift accordingly. There was a time when both the South Korean left and North Korea were more interested in good relations with Japan than the right here was.
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The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
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One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.
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No one fulfills himself fully. What is fulfilling oneself? Advancing as one can.
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From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.
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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.
