Annie Lennox Quotes
If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it's hard. It's the most beautiful thing, yes, but it's hard.
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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I'm shocked at being recognized.
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I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.
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Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy... In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
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The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.
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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
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If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.
