Annie Lennox Quotes
Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
Quotes to Explore
-
I voted for Barack Obama.
-
I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
-
The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
-
But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
-
My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
-
You want your coach's blessing.
-
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
-
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
-
But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
-
In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
-
Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
-
Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
-
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
-
The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
-
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
-
I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
-
Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.
-
You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on,-and on.
-
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
-
It is the perpetual tragedy of all families: each of us believe our congenital pathologies and singular pains end with us.
-
In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.
-
Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
