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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Before I really became interested in fashion, all I would look at in a fashion magazine was the ads. It only dawned on me recently that just looking at the ads really doesn't teach you everything you need to know about the fashion world.
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We are very focused on the fact that people do not have a paycheck at this point. We want to get money into their pockets so they can make their own decisions on what they want to do.
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'Castles Made of Sand' was a song that my parents put me to sleep to, so naturally, it still puts me in a zen state.
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Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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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.
