"I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano?"

-- Fiona Apple

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“I can't expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.”
“I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30”
“Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.”
“In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.”
“Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.”
“Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions”
“I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.”
“It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them.”

Source : "An Interview with Jean Liedloff" by Chris Mercogliano, www.continuum-concept.org.

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