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My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

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Fiona Apple
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: September 13
Composer
Jazz Musician
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Writer
Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart
Fiona Apple Maggart
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Sophomore
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Understood

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I read on the Internet that I was dead.
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I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.
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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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I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar I don't get paparazzi around me.
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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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I realized I was trying to be friends with somebody who I used to be with but who I didn't get along with. I'm really big on that. I need to be friends with everyone that I've ever had a relationship with.
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I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.
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Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
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The worst pain in the world is shame.
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Nobody is strong enough to not be influenced.
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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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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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