Kate Bush Quotes
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
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Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful.
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There's something about a new family moving into the White House that's kind of interesting, even if you didn't vote for them.
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I have anxiety every day about being pulled over.
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I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.
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To me, a lot people really get wrapped up in the technical side of metal and what's metal and what's not and more double-kick and more blast beats and more technicality, but for me, I'm a song person. So I think you can write good songs in any type of style of rock and any type of style of metal, and that's kind of what I'm a fan of.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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We should be able to write songs for a new album every six months. If you think about it, it's not a crazy amount of writing.
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I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
