Fiona Apple Quotes
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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I find if my character is more glamorous, I become more conscious of what I look like.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do.
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When I grew up, we didn't even talk about being gay. I didn't even hear the word lesbian when I was little. So to me, that's such huge progress to see everyone wanting to be on the right side of transgender history.
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My job is not to make people happy; it's to tell the truth as I see it.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
