Alison Moyet Quotes
My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.
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Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.
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The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
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I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.
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I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.
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Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.
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I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.
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My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?
