Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
FIONA SHAW My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a do...
FIONA SHAW I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in ...
FIONA SHAW 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 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 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'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards...
FIONA SHAW To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business...
FIONA SHAW Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
FIONA SHAW I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
FIONA SHAW There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
FIONA SHAW This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
FIONA SHAW What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most importa...
FIONA MCINTOSH We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole ...
FIONA MCINTOSH Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for ...
FIONA MCINTOSH Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit beca...
FIONA MCINTOSH I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fi...
FIONA MCINTOSH When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life cris...
FIONA MCINTOSH For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've go...
FIONA MCINTOSH I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position...
FIONA GUBELMANN One of my favorite comedies is 'Groundhog Day' and 'Scrooged.' I love Bill Murray, a...
FIONA GUBELMANN I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I t...
FIONA GUBELMANN I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, s...
FIONA GUBELMANN I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your pers...
FIONA GUBELMANN I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, an...
FIONA GUBELMANN I actually think that's true, that we kind of create our own hell.
FIONA DOURIF I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's some...
FIONA DOURIF I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was - I don't know, f...
FIONA DOURIF I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.
FIONA DOURIF I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when yo...
FIONA DOURIF Chucky is absolutely still a puppet. He will remain to be.
FIONA DOURIF I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't g...
FIONA DOURIF I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corn...
FIONA DOURIF If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
FIONA APPLE I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a br...
FIONA APPLE I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
FIONA APPLE I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
FIONA APPLE I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversation...
FIONA APPLE I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
FIONA APPLE I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes ...
FIONA APPLE Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
FIONA APPLE You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you'r...
FIONA APPLE I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what ...
FIONA APPLE The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
FIONA APPLE For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and ...
FIONA APPLE Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you ca...
FIONA APPLE Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to h...
FIONA APPLE You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy th...
FIONA APPLE When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by your...
FIONA APPLE Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
FIONA APPLE I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want ...
FIONA APPLE How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy l...
FIONA APPLE When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted...
FIONA APPLE If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.
FIONA APPLE Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered,...
MELANIE FIONA When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes t...
FIONA APPLE When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can...
FIONA APPLE A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my fac...
FIONA MACLEOD I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I...
MELANIE FIONA I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to...
FIONA APPLE Melanie Fiona is a singer, a songwriter, she's a super-girl. I can be silly, goofy, really chill...
MELANIE FIONA To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, ess...
FIONA THRUST It was the wildness of it that got me going: the primal lust, the sheer needs of two people in heat,...
FIONA THRUST I live for sex.

I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my...
FIONA THRUST In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it...
FIONA APPLE I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
FIONA APPLE I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at t...
FIONA APPLE There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're t...
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 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 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 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.
<...
FIONA THRUST I stood in front of him, frustratedly imagining his naked muscular chest, and wanting his hot cock t...
FIONA THRUST I’d love to be tried out,’ I said, with a suggestive smile. ‘One should always explore somethi...
FIONA THRUST I traced a finger along my bottom lip as I wondered what his erection would look like, and how I sho...
FIONA THRUST You know, there’s no pleasure like the joy of being a sexual woman.

You can take your ...
FIONA THRUST The first time someone else touched me with the intent to pleasure, I fell in love. Not with that pe...
FIONA ZEDDE He said 'it's all in your head'
and I said 'so's everything'
but he didn't get it.
FIONA APPLE I say tell me the truth, but you don´t dare. I tell you how I feel but you don´t care. You say lov...
FIONA APPLE We look at each other with shy relief. It's the look two odd socks give when they recognise each oth...
FIONA WOOD How beautiful they are, / The lordly ones, / Who dwell in the hills, / In the hollow hills.
FIONA MACLEOD Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.
MELANIE FIONA To my lovely starling,
Maybe there are magical words that will make you understand, but if so,...
FIONA PAUL There we were, filled with pure animal need, as he pinned me to the wooden table, and cruelly whippe...
FIONA THRUST Falco wagged her journal in front of her. "This is yours, I presume." A slow smile spread across his...
FIONA PAUL Just because I’ve been gone from this country for most of my life doesn’t mean I understand it a...
FIONA ZEDDE I was so self-critical. I still am; but it's not as bad anymore.
FIONA APPLE I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my ...
FIONA APPLE I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
FIONA APPLE I say tell me the truth, but you don´t dare. I tell you how I feel but you don´t care. You say lov...
FIONA APPLE Nobody sees when you are lying in your bedand I want to crawl in with youbut I cry instead
FIONA APPLE My biggest inspiration has been romantic relationships, because there's something about the way that...
FIONA APPLE As usual, I don't know which way is north, but I know the direction of beauty.
FIONA WOOD Intentions are worthless to me.
FIONA DAVIS He said 'it's all in your head' and I said 'so's everything'but he didn't get it.
FIONA APPLE And I will pretendthat I don't know of your sinsuntil you are ready to confessbut all the timeI'll k...
FIONA APPLE I was freaked out about it, ... I felt guilty; I felt really moved that people cared about me that m...
FIONA APPLE I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment. I can't think about an...
FIONA APPLE For a while I was looking forward to having to get another job, ... I had this fantasy about applyin...
FIONA APPLE This a real but minor issue involving a vendor-quality problem in a small number of units,
FIONA APPLE Look at what happens when people get up on podiums and talk about politics.
FIONA APPLE I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and lear...
FIONA APPLE Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar...
FIONA WOOD I could feel his whole body trying to claim me, want me, own me in lust, and it made me feel so valu...
FIONA THRUST Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that mad...
MELANIE FIONA I really love my job, but juggling strange hours with two children is a bit like being a hamster on ...
FIONA PHILLIPS There is something about him,
FIONA PHILLIPS I'd love more kids but I'm too old. So I'd like to foster one or two. I've met some remarkable peopl...
FIONA PHILLIPS My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.
MELANIE FIONA The Internet makes it pretty easy for the consumer to research airline fares and buy tickets.
FIONA SWERDLOW Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I fe...
FIONA APPLE I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip s...
FIONA APPLE I thought I wanted to be degraded, but I wanted to be degraded with love. You wanted me to talk duri...
FIONA HELMSLEY We were willing to cooperate for a certain amount of things. We were willing to share our knowledge....
FIONA TERRY Basically, the situation is not very good. The government has not authorized us to visit since the e...
FIONA TERRY The Net is a perfect medium for this kind of thing. Whatever it is you're offering, you can very cos...
FIONA SWERDLOW In days past, you almost had to open a document or install software in order for some malicious enti...
FIONA SWERDLOW I think almost all the diseases, except cancers and some birth defects, are higher among those with ...
FIONA STANLEY While partly the result of a rebound from hurricane disruptions, the rise in Texas' leading indicato...
FIONA SIGALLA The economy is in much better position to absorb them [evacuees] than it was a few years ago.
FIONA SIGALLA People here are quick to tell you that they remember what overbuilding feels like.
FIONA SIGALLA Real estate investment is certainly a vote of confidence on future activity.
FIONA SIGALLA The only time I sit down is when I'm on the GMTV sofa, ... When my co-presenter, Andrew Castle, says...
FIONA PHILLIPS And now I know him, I think he's been much maligned. He's a great guy. But, having said that, I stil...
FIONA PHILLIPS The heels are going to be a problem. I can't even walk in heels.
FIONA PHILLIPS I really love my job, but juggling strange hours with two children is a bit like being a hamster on ...
FIONA PHILLIPS My only hope is the O-line blocks and that she doesn't get trampled on and she doesn't get injured. ...
FIONA NEPO She hasn't played club volleyball; she's only played school volleyball. And she's just practiced her...
FIONA NEPO If any other local businesses wish to contribute you can contact us at the school or via email.
FIONA MOORE We hope to start the raffle next week, we will definitely advertise when we know the exact date ours...
FIONA MOORE Mr Woodrow, Justin and I have come up with some ideas to raise that kind of money to make it easier ...
FIONA MOORE It is more environmentally friendly. It's a really nice drive. I'm used to driving the Explorer and ...
FIONA MILLER Some of the products we were selling turned out to be really popular. The money those generated was ...
FIONA MILLER When we started we only had about 150 products, but it took off from there.
FIONA MILLER The red carpet is now more important than the catwalk as millions more people watch these kind of ev...
FIONA MCINTOSH That always has been horribly unfair. But in classical theater there's always a dearth of female rol...
FIONA MACLEOD A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I, too, will set my ...
FIONA MACLEOD Specialists advised today that Jonah will be out of action for about six weeks. He hopes to begin li...
FIONA LOMU It really served me well.
FIONA KLAUSS If the bottom of the eye comes up, the emotion is not matching the words.
FIONA KLAUSS Your face is a conception of what other people see in you. I'm just bringing it to light.
FIONA KLAUSS This dovetails nicely because the goals put forward by the California Climate Action Team are consis...
FIONA HUTTON That's an easy scare tactic for the oil companies to use against consumers.
FIONA HUTTON California can be a model for the nation (in a) technological revolution that will benefit the econo...
FIONA HUTTON Last year this was the place to schmooze.
FIONA DUFF How many times do your feet have to press down on a path before they make an imprint, before pieces ...
FIONA WOOD REVISITING THE LIST
1. Kiss Estelle
Okay, at least I've met her. She thinks I'm a creep. A...
FIONA WOOD You know, there’s no pleasure like the joy of being a sexual woman.

You can take your ...
FIONA THRUST Then they had a day together in Melbourne and Jenny stayed in her first hotel, with Luc sparing no e...
FIONA MCINTOSH Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at ...
FIONA APPLE I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
FIONA APPLE I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
FIONA APPLE Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want ...
FIONA APPLE My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome.
FIONA WOOD Something'll turn up.
FIONA FAITH ROSS The most damaging aspect of abuse is the trauma to our hearts and souls from being betrayed by the p...
FIONA MARLENE AFFLECK Every relationship is like a piece of tapestry. The most beautiful ones are woven with threads of tr...
FIONA MARLENE AFFLECK Be free, and live life fully.
CAROLINE SHAW My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
IRWIN SHAW I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
IRWIN SHAW All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
IRWIN SHAW It's those damn critics again.
IRWIN SHAW I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
IRWIN SHAW No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
IRWIN SHAW People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
IRWIN SHAW Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
IRWIN SHAW In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that...
IRWIN SHAW I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would ...
IRWIN SHAW If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous app...
IRWIN SHAW