Alison Moyet Quotes
If you think about it, I was at college, and then three months later, I was a massive pop star. It's stress-making, especially when you're a bit of an oddball as I was, the black sheep left to your own devices, and then suddenly everyone's interested in you.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.
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About the time I was 7, I got really into black-exploitation films, so I made my own Wonder Woman, but I made her black.
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I think the stress on income inequality is something that every American should take seriously, we have got to figure out how we're going to provide more economic opportunity - good jobs with rising incomes - and I'm excited to work with Senator Sanders in doing that.
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If you think about it, I was at college, and then three months later, I was a massive pop star. It's stress-making, especially when you're a bit of an oddball as I was, the black sheep left to your own devices, and then suddenly everyone's interested in you.
