Alison Moyet Quotes
My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.
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I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.
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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
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I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.
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My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.
