Alison Goldfrapp Quotes
I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during the day.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
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The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
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I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.'
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I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
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I've made more mistakes than anyone I know. Sometimes I learned something, and sometimes I just find myself doing it again. It makes me mad when I wasn't smart enough to learn the first time. You just think it's going to be different the next time, and it's not, as it turns out.
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I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during the day.
