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Bat for Lashes Quotes

When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: October 25, 1979

Topics

Learning Writing Process Learn You

At a young age, I wanted to be a prima ballerina and had these grand ideas that I would go study at Juilliard. It's something I laugh about now.

Age Ideas Laugh Go Young Now

People that have known me for a while tell me how they see me grown as an artist and as a writer. I think that this comes with continuing writing each day. I try to write as often as I can and explore more while I do it. I feel more comfortable with opening up and telling more of my story to everyone.

Day People Me Writing Story Think

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

Early Islam Years Low West Sense

A hat trick in a derby is a special thing.

Hat Special Derby Trick Thing

We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk off in some corner because you are a girl? What's the big deal?

Mother Girl You Go Why Big

It's weird, the evolution of a person. You understand yourself, you understand your surroundings. Then, when you understand who came before you, once you understand that about yourself and the energy that you came to this planet with, you understand more about yourself.

Metta World Peace

Yourself Energy Weird You Person

When I was a lieutenant in Special Forces many many years ago, I thought I was getting fat. And I started running, and I started running distance, which I enjoyed.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Thought Fat Distance Special Years

I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true.

Love True Spirit Band Involved Get

Racing is full of 'what-ifs.' Like anything else in life, you learn from your mistakes and move on to the next challenge.

Life Challenge Mistakes Learn Racing

I have covered Israeli hostage and M.I.A. cases for more than 15 years, including the covert ways in which Israel's powerful espionage agencies operate to bring soldiers home alive or dead. Over that time, the issue has come to dominate public discourse to a degree that no one could have predicted.

Home Time Powerful Alive Dead More

Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

Muse Not Interested Interested Knows

I guess I did get to tick a big one off the bucket list, though, and that was being on a giant billboard smack-bang in the hub of Hollywood Boulevard. That was... well, pretty Hollywood.

Hollywood Pretty Big Well Bucket

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