Alison Goldfrapp Quotes
I carry my own food around on tour; I permanently have carrier bags full of cereal and bananas.
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I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
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I'm an affectionate person.
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I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.
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Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.
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The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.
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I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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Junk food drags you down.
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I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!
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I carry my own food around on tour; I permanently have carrier bags full of cereal and bananas.
