Joan Armatrading Quotes

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Joan Armatrading

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: December 9, 1950

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MotherWritingRoomPianoStarted

The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.

Jim Finks

SportsRosesRunNothingScaredGuy

My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.

Jez Butterworth

FatherAttitudePoliticsChildMe

Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director.

Andrew Lau

MeFamousWantDirectorLike

Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry.

Megan Smith

WorkWomenGraceBuildingYear

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

Steve Earle

ArtBestPoliticalAmericaSometimes

If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.

Tom Stoppard

DeadLeftBeenWouldCzechoslovakia

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

Jean de la Bruyere

GreatSolitudeMisfortuneIncapable

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Jawaharlal Nehru

ServiceCitizenshipCountryConsists

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Dick Gregory

WorkDanceLawBlackStandYou

Sunglasses are a migraine sufferer's best friend.

Cindy McCain

FriendBestBest FriendSunglasses

After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.

Colleen Haskell

JobMeMovingDrivingCountryGoing

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

Anthony Storr

WrongPlaceWantMental IllnessBeen

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