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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

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Fiona Apple
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: September 13
Composer
Jazz Musician
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I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.
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I think that, y'know, they seem to really love music, which means they'll stick with it. I think that Hanson could be really good in a few years, actually!
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death the echo I created outlasted my last breath.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within, but then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full and sank in the burrows of my keep, and all my armor, falling down, in a pile at my feet.
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Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
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The truth is it's fun to be up there and know that you're in your underwear. Even though I know I'm exploiting my sexuality in a certain way, it's fun! It boosts my ego.
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something
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I like the idea of the idler wheel - it just sits in between things, but it makes such a big difference in the way that the machine is working. That concept has always been something that has interested me, but I didn't really know why.
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Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest
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If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.
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I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while, and then the funny side of me is going to come out. Slowly, people are going to realize they're seeing a completely honest evolution of human life.
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The worst pain in the world is shame.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.
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My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it. But in the long run, no matter what I do for the rest of my life, I'll know I did something wonderful by saying what I felt. That's what I said at the awards there: Go with yourself. And that's what I did.
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