Lauren Mayberry Quotes
After the first album, I spent a lot of time being like, 'I'm not really a singer.' That kind of mentality doesn't help.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
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I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.
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I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.
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When you are cast for a role, it's because of everything that makes you who you are in that moment in time. No one else has that. That's a unique, powerful thing to hold.
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The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.
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I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
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After the first album, I spent a lot of time being like, 'I'm not really a singer.' That kind of mentality doesn't help.
