The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process. I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ~Beth Gibbons
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. ~Martin Van Buren
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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