Annie Lennox Quotes
In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.
Quotes to Explore
-
Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
-
Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
-
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
-
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
-
Social revolutions are never simple.
-
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
-
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
-
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
-
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
-
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
-
I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
-
To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
-
Music is such a part of my soul.
-
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
-
I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
-
If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
-
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
-
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
-
And I say in the book, 'Hard Measures,' that actually they were pretty wimpy if you really - if the American people actually knew what these techniques where, they would say, what are you talking about?
-
As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
-
I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.
-
You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.
-
In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.
