Lauren Mayberry Quotes
My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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I don't drink hot beverages.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.
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I can watch a movie about a person that can make me feel depressed or remind me of something else, and then later on I'll get an idea for a song.
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There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.
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My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.
