Annie Lennox Quotes
It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
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Radio is for driving.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.
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I'm a big fan of my father.
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I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
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I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.
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I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.
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After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
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One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
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At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.
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Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.
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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
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My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.'
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Manuscripts don't burn.
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Develop a mentor at each stage of your career - someone who will give you guidance and advice.
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
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Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.
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The biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the toughest part.
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It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
