Bat for Lashes Quotes
'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.
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I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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I believe it is essential that we close the security gaps that put our nation at risk, and I will continue to fight for the funding that will secure high-risk targets, such as our ports and borders.
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I never say a funny thing intentionally.
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We care for our children. And the most important thing is that we want them to achieve the highest degree of success.
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No, do not love me, it is better to give me death!
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'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
