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Fiona Apple Quotes

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

Fiona Apple

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 13, 1977

Topics

Work Sorry Graduation You Done Kind

I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.

Jim Gaffigan

Myself Food Growing Up Growing Up

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Joe Biden

Good Focus Gift Bad Greatest Gift

Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'

Jennifer Armintrout

Change Writing Saying Someone Doing

Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate.

Andrew Wiles

Mathematics Simple Problems Year You

Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do - I don't know that everybody can do that. That's the hard part.

John Irving

Research Writing Ending You Know

I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.

Tom Stoppard

Life More Write Economy Always Line

I read Russian literature a lot.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Literature Read Lot Russian

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

Minnie Driver

Love You Filmmaking Say Ashamed

So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.

Miles Teller

Work Beginning Man People Me Think

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

Dick Cheney

Energy Personal Virtue Sound Policy

Look at my track record for showing up to fights. Look at my track record of finishing fights. Look at my track record of getting fight night bonuses. Ask yourself if you think that if the UFC decided to truly put marketing dollars behind me that they couldn't sell me or my fights.

Demetrious Johnson

Yourself Fight Me Night Think Look

In 10th grade, I was kicking it with the seniors. I introduced myself, and they were like, 'Yeah, Demetrius is cool, but we're gonna call you Pac.' That was it! It could be worse!

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

Myself Cool You Seniors Call Worse