Bat for Lashes Quotes
I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I am a big music nerd.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.
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I think the western is about people in harsh places trying to tame an unfriendly wilderness. Because life is defined by struggle, it's kind of the perfect microcosmic experience to explore that. 'Here we are, struggling.' It's about people persevering and persevering and persevering.
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I used to tell my mother, 'I'm going to have to get a real job one day.' You keep saying this will end one day, but people still call us up and ask us to sing. It's truly amazing.
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I have a mentality of not worrying about what people say about me, good or bad. That's not what I'm putting my energy into.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
