Alison Moyet Quotes
My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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The future path of the federal funds rate is necessarily uncertain because economic activity and inflation will likely evolve in unexpected ways. For example, no one can be certain about the pace at which economic headwinds will fade. More generally, the economy will inevitably be buffeted by shocks that cannot be foreseen.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity.
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Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.
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I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures.
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My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.
