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Alison Moyet Quotes

My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: June 18, 1961

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Soul World Care My Soul Anything

I didn't have this tortured childhood; I liked it.

Childhood Liked Tortured

High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.

Start Industry Got Film One-Liners

In 'Bombay-London-New York,' I speak of the ways in which the 'soft' emotion of nostalgia is turned into the 'hard' emotion of fundamentalism.

Speak Nostalgia Emotion Hard Soft

The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.

Work Day People Enough You Morale

Sometimes I might be sleepy, and sometimes I've literally been sleeping backstage, woken up, gone straight on stage or gone crazy. It's not like I psyche myself; I don't do any of that.

Myself Crazy Sometimes Sleeping Gone

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Life Change Society Think See Out

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.

Congress Give Machine State He

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Christine Gregoire

Doing You Say Why Clients Because

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

Women Find Now Question Production

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

Political Heritage Now Seriously

I have found that so many directors and producers in the room say nothing, and this can be deadly. It's very difficult to audition for comedy in the vacuum of a small room, but it's the only way most do it.

Small Comedy Say Nothing Way Room

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.

Group Leaving Everything Out Within

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