Alison Goldfrapp Quotes
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There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.
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I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet.
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The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.
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I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.
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I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
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I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But it is worth it, and it isn't particularly expensive.
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When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'
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I totally had OCD as a teenager. I used to have to touch all four sides of a picture frame when I got home from school and before I started to do my homework. It was time-consuming. But then I just outgrew it, though it sometimes comes back when I'm under a lot of stress.
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The first TV show I worked on was with the guys from 'Little Britian,' Matt Lucas and David Walliams, who did a show in 1995 I directed, 'Mash and Peas.'
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I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
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I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.
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There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
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I don't really see myself as a socialite or as a 'child of someone.' I'd rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time.
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I grew up very fast. I was always hanging around with older kids.
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The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
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I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.
