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When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.


Fiona McIntosh

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FIONA APPLE I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
FIONA APPLE It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.
FIONA APPLE I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
FIONA APPLE I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in ...
FIONA SHAW Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I fe...
FIONA APPLE It was the impatience of the way he tore my panties from my body, that really turned me on: I was al...
FIONA THRUST I love being aroused.

I relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being n...
FIONA THRUST Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I c...
FIONA APPLE And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
FIONA SHAW I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at...
FIONA SHAW I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never d...
FIONA APPLE I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream, you got your head in the clouds you're...
FIONA APPLE The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
FIONA APPLE [During her sabbatical, she said, she would often sit in her backyard in Venice, Calif., thinking an...
FIONA APPLE Nobody sees when you are lying in your bed
and I want to crawl in with you
but I cry instead
FIONA APPLE And I will pretend
that I don't know of your sins
until you are ready to confess
but all...
FIONA APPLE I say tell me the truth, but you don«t dare. I tell you how I feel but you donÃ�...
FIONA APPLE But he washed me ashoreand he took my pearland left an empty shell of me.
FIONA APPLE [Her inertia did not sit well with some in her immediate circle. They accused Ms. Apple of being laz...
FIONA APPLE Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.
FIONA APPLE I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.
MELANIE FIONA My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that&#...
MELANIE FIONA I feel like shoes are one of those things that no matter how conservative or how outrageous you get,...
MELANIE FIONA I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.
MELANIE FIONA Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
FIONA SHAW A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
FIONA SHAW You can get very self-important about it, but the point is it's play.
FIONA SHAW The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
FIONA SHAW I've enjoyed it and I would like to make more films because it allows me this terrible time I need t...
FIONA SHAW The way I look at it is that I am a non-man playing somebody who perceives himself to be a non-man.
FIONA SHAW I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerou...
FIONA SHAW There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Irelan...
FIONA SHAW I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the...
FIONA APPLE Home is where my habits have a habitat
FIONA APPLE Once I had a wild fling on an otherwise boring weekend holiday in Edinburgh, with a guy I met who tu...
FIONA THRUST Excuse me,’ I said cheerily. ‘Is the job still going?’ I pointed to the notice.

‘...
FIONA THRUST He closed the door behind us, and led me through to the back of the shop. ‘If you don’t mind, yo...
FIONA THRUST I was hot and horny as hell.
Which was typical of me. I’m twenty-five, and I’m healthy, an...
FIONA THRUST You know, when I see a good-looking man, the first thing I think about is sex. I want to see him nak...
FIONA THRUST He looked at me, and then looked away quickly.

But I could tell he was interested.
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