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My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.
Annie Lennox
Women
Society
Incredibly
State
Visiting
Bore
Brunt
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Obvious
Became
Stimulated
Issue
Many
Things
There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.
Annie Lennox
You
Together
Women
People
Strong
Collaborative
Voice
Lot
Get
Organisations
Working
Separately
I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.
Annie Lennox
Good
Christian
Think
Message
I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.
Annie Lennox
Love
Woman
Suffering
Women
Girl
Reputation
Cold
Other
Girlfriends
Aloof
Involved
Passionate
Issues
Affect
Women And Children
Getting
Being
Children
Who
I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.
Annie Lennox
Saying
Women
Enough
Tremendous
Relevance
Out
Feel
Artists
Anything
Who
I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.
Annie Lennox
Girl
Singing
Older
Entered
Voice
Got
Lot
Loved
Little
Little Girl
Really
Choirs
Sang
Found
Competitions
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.
Annie Lennox
Life
Beautiful
My Life
Parents
Own
Everything
Must
Some
Parent
My Own
Daughters
Through
Devote
Always
Very
Children
Which
Working
Hard
Lived
Kept
In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.
Annie Lennox
Work
Music
Best
You
Business
Fight
World
Sense
Corner
Music Business
Filters
Find
Hoping
Record
Someone
Through
Always
Bedfellows
Been
Labels
Get
Goes
Often
Artists
Your
Help
Media
I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.
Annie Lennox
Natural
World
About
Seems
Because
Always
Am
Passionate
Place
Communicator
I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
Annie Lennox
Bathroom
TV
District
Brought
Had
House
Hallway
Up
Working
Even
I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.
Annie Lennox
Myself
Hate
People
Seriously
Some People
Preaching
Think
Some
Take
Want
Anyone
Thing
Last
I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.
Annie Lennox
Enjoy
Spinning
Lot
Different
Want
Plates
Different Things
Keep
Things
You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.
Annie Lennox
You
People
Puppet
Find
Factor
Through
Factory
Joni Mitchell
Know
Masters
Mitchell
Go
Owned
Want
Process
Place
Specific
Thing
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.
Annie Lennox
Me
You
Integrity
Happy
Song
Dog
Disagree
Face
Baby
Tried
All-Around
Supermarket
Open
Put
Globe
Around
Makes
Always
Am
Selling
Goes
Want
Autonomy
Your
Who
Who Am I
Chain
Keep
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.
Annie Lennox
Work
Comeback
Satisfied
Incredible
Back
Feel
Look
Very
Really
Keen
Thing
I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.
Armando Iannucci
Thought
Saw
Would
Would-Be
Priest
Becoming
Quickly
Ridiculous
I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.
Armando Iannucci
Negative
Cynical
Everything
Though
Am
Optimist
Even
I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.
Armando Iannucci
Character
Writing
Think
Way
Easy
Find
Easy Way
Voice
Like
Pieces
Start
When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.
Armando Iannucci
You
Yourself
People
Speak
Language
Become
Own
Mimicking
Define
Some
Almost
Institutions
Always
How
Off
Impressions
Then
Used
Aware
Started
When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism!
Armando Iannucci
You
Arrogance
Despotism
Charge
Able
Something
Call
Felt
Always
Got
Making
Stop
Turning
Shots
Therefore
I hate the idea of labels and saying you are member of one party or another and signing up to all sorts of policies that you don't have a view on or don't believe in. Because I'm not a politician, I don't have to be consistent in what I say and how I behave.
Armando Iannucci
Saying
You
Hate
Party
Politician
Believe
Say
Consistent
Member
One Party
Signing
Idea
Policies
Sort
Another
Because
How
Up
Labels
Behave
View
My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool because he watches things I've made on YouTube.
Armando Iannucci
Made
YouTube
He
Because
Cool
Things
Watches
Thinks
Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.
Arthur Keith
Old
Christian
Ancient
More
Ideal
Than
Much
Nay
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
Arthur Keith
Truth
Science
Ethics
Conviction
Concerned
Personal
Wholly
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
Arthur Keith
Work
Nature
Must
See
Mental
Give
Adopt
Rational
Take
Existence
Account
Modern
Human
Explain
Explanation
Human Existence
Communities
Theory
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
Arthur Keith
Man
Liberty
Every
Attacked
Instinctive
Reaction
Passionate
His
Person
Every Man
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