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“Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.”

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Annie Lennox is a Scottish singer-songwriter known for her distinctive voice and musical talent. Born on December 25, 1954, she has been active in the music industry since the late 1970s. Renowned for her emotional delivery and diverse musical styles, Annie Lennox's work spans genres including pop, rock, soul, and folk. more

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“I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an existential angst that I have felt most of my life and still feel today, to not be overwhelmed by it. Music, in a way, is a great vehicle, a means by which one can express all these somewhat contradictory feelings.”

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“One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.”

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“We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.”

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“To be human is to have a whole spectrum of these experiences that arise within us.”

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“As you get older, there will be a new challenge arising. What you thought you'd accomplished once, maybe the goal post has shifted and it's not what you're pursuing anymore, because you're not interested in that anymore, you know?”

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“At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever it was, sometimes it had me really, really shaking in my shoes, and I decided that I was going to do it no matter what. And, of course, the critic is there, and afterwards, there's this, "Was it good enough? Was it really all I wanted to say?"”

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“I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.”

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“I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me.”

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“I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.”

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“I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.”

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