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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The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.
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Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back.
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If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.
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I knew that I was different. I gravitated more toward playing house, but the teachers were always pushing me toward playing the more competitive games with the boys. I spent so much time wondering, 'What's wrong with me? Why can't I fit in?'
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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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.
