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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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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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I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.
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A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest numbers of people infected with HIV.
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The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.
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Viktor Frankl said the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause him to think about anything he didn't want to think about.
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Stick a camera up in an Indian village, and thousands of people come to watch.
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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.
