Bat for Lashes Quotes
There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all this sparkly stardust going through everyone. I want to make people come alive.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature - in an effort to avoid wasting precious space within chromosomes - would pack as many genes into each chromosome as possible.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.
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Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.
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Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress.
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There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all this sparkly stardust going through everyone. I want to make people come alive.
