Lauren Mayberry Quotes
I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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Oh, yeah, I've seen 'Seinfeld' 1,000 times.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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I was always really interested in startups and fascinated by what they were working on.
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My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.
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When you're aware, from a young age, of how something plays in public, it makes you a young entrepreneur, whether you like it or not. I call most teenagers 'young entrepreneurs' because from a young age we're aware that our social media is building our brand. And if, when you're 13, you're concerned with building your brand, then "like" disparities matter.
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You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely to find themselves standing in the kitchen with all these domestic skills and no outlet for them, no way to earn a living... At that point your kids are not thanking you for having made the hand-pureed baby food and for giving them homemade cookies. They don't feel you've done them a big favor; they say, "Why didn't she ever grow up and take responsibility for her own life?"
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If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.
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I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager.
