Barbara Amiel Quotes
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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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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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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I dress to kill, but tastefully.
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I love musicians. I think artists are the most amazing people because they're constantly creating beauty for the world. With all the crazy stuff going on in the world, then there's artists reminding us of our humanity and reminding us of our heart and soul and what really matters.
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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I come in a world of iron to make a world of gold.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.