Kate Bush Quotes
I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.
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Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.
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I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
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I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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Heartbreak is hard, but you find more and more things to be grateful for every day.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
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I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.
