Annie Lennox Quotes
I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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I'm definitely an indoor kid who's turned into an inside person.
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You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.
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Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since, that turned itself to past without a word".
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You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.
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I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you.
