Fiona Apple Quotes
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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Due to my hectic work schedule, I hardly have enough sleep, and my skin tends to look dull. Facial masks are my savior, as it helps to brighten and hydrate my skin.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Impulses are hard to come by these days.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
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When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.
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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
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A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
