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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
Hiv Activist
Music Video Director
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
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Ann Lennox
Ann Griselda Lennox
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I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
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Motherhood was the great equaliser for me I started to identify with everybody.
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I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.
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This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead
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There needs to be a shift in consciousness there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.
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I have a lot to be grateful for.
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If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it's not for me. I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.
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I want to be true to who I am.
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Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.
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You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.
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HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
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I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.
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As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
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I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
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You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again.
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The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.
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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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