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Sophie Ellis-Bextor Quotes

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: April 10, 1979

Topics

Music People Long Career Started

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

Work Day Job Waiting People Writing

The 'New York Times' undertakes extreme vetting against Republicans every single day.

Day New York New Single Against

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

Baseball Team Team Sport Themselves

I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.

Character Happy People Better Person

Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing what I'm doing, but much harder, more condensed. It's the same job, but they're more talented. All of them. So I just steal openly from them.

Andrew Sean Greer

Time Job Poetry Me Writing Think

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I Am Child Parents Now Only Child

I'm about the present.

What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality. That's what I'm trying to do with immigration. If what the founding fathers said is true, that we are all equal, then let's fight for that.

Fight Equality Interesting Trying

I sounded like Bob Dylan for about five minutes, and it was blown out of all proportion.

Out Five Like Minutes Proportion

The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

Living United United States Word

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

Wish My Own More Never I Wish Own

I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

People Think Better Quit Kind Get

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