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'm not somebody with over-weening ambition.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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If you can figure out what their motivation is, then you're ahead of the game. I think that's why a lot of people who are in this industry don't have a lot of friends - but have a lot of acquaintances - because you never know what everyone's ulterior motives are.
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Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
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Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely because it is a self capable of experiencing happiness and misery and endowed with the power to choose between good and evil. The love of humans is thus more than a feeling, it is a state of the will.
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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.
