Alison Goldfrapp Quotes
I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;And pyramids are pyramids in vales.Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.
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With 'Human Giant,' we tested almost everything live and made tweaks based on what worked and what didn't.
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I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.
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I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.
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The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot.
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I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.
