Lily Allen (Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper) Quotes
People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.
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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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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.
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Two hundred channel choices in most homes certainly gives you the world of choice. And so slicing it, dicing it, and offering someone their favorite thing - by the way, if it's not good enough, make it yourself and post it.
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I enjoy money.
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
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I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'
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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
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There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
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I think there are some liberals who are extremely biased about Fox News and wish to shun it or wish to criticize any liberal who appears on Fox News. That, to me, is not a particularly liberal attitude.
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For our purposes, let’s say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don’t sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it’s a system. If you’re waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it’s a goal.
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Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
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People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.
