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I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

Annie Lennox

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Annie Lennox
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
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Singer-Songwriter
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Ann Lennox
Ann Griselda Lennox
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Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.
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Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
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Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.
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I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.
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Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.
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When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.
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When I was younger I wish I'd known that what often seemed to be the 'end of the world' often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!
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I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
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