Agnes Obel Quotes
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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Meghan Trainor is my female crush because she's just fierce.
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We knew we had the resources to send our kids to whatever school was best for them.
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Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.
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Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.
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Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.
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The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.
