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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Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
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It's really cool to see how many awesome, badass ladies are out there now just doing their thing and putting their foot down, saying, "Nope. You're not going to tell me I'm doing something women shouldn't be doing." It's a scary time but also I think a really important time. I'm happy to see how much girls are responding to a lot of the other powerful big boys swimming out there right now.
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It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.
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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.
