Alison Moyet Quotes
There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.
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I'll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I've just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that's going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I'm here! I really want to!
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.
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It's been pretty effortless with Sensa because I am not thinking about how long do I need to do this. Usually, when you stop a diet program, you lose control again. But I don't need to stop what I'm doing. I'm eating everything that I like. Sensa just helps me keep it all in check.
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If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
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Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.
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They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.
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I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.
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I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.
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A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!
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I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
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There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.
