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I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: scottish
Birth: August 29, 1959

Topics

Time Born Jazz Out Singer Started

I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang and what I sang and what I wore. I wanted to write a book about an American family, the family that has produced me. The longer I live, the more I realise the incredible support and love we were given as children.

Family Love Live Children Support

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

Good People Enough Feeling Say

I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.

Michael Bloomberg

Lie Me Never Question Somebody Them

I really like writing music. That's kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don't really have any control when you're an actor, over what you're doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You're always waiting to hear from people.

Music Waiting People Writing Control

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

America Ferrera

Truth Me Random Truth Is Story Name

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Live Black America Intellectual Box

I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

Three Say Need Always Days Break

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

Thinking You Things Where Idea Fuel

We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us; they drew like us. We wear essentially the same clothes against the cold.

Walls Painting Cold Feel Clothes

I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

Believe Constitution Country Write

I'll read on Twitter, 'Do you still do music?' Music is all I do, all day.

Music Day You Still Read Twitter

Everyone's job is invaluable. Film and TV production is collaboration.

Michaela Watkins

Job Collaboration Everyone Production

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