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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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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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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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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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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The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable.
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In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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I planned the exhibition so that it becomes a story where the viewer travels through these islands [of ideas]. Whether the contents of each chapter came first or the artist came first in making the decision was different in each case.
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I decided to take a leap of faith and go into business for myself. I'm scared to death!
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Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
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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.
