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I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

Annie Lennox

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Annie Lennox
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
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I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.
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I have a lot to be grateful for.
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The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out.
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Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.
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The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.
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Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.
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There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.
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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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The very fact that the planet is probably unsustainable with all that we've done to it and are doing to it, it's an appalling piece of evidence. It shows our complacency, our lack of passion or inclination to be authentic and really understand our true values. It's consistently depressing, but nevertheless, we carry on.
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You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
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I chose a career in obstetrics and gynecology because there's something about honoring women, honoring the birth process. We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
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I'm not particularly attention-seeking.
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I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.
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Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.
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I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
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I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about Feel the fear and do it anyway. You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.
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We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.
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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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