Lauren Mayberry Quotes

Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.

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• When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Music
  • Theory

• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Problem
  • Effort
  • Worth

• Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Work
  • Win
  • Tears

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Want
  • Career

• I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Truth
  • Change
  • Ability

• There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Mistakes

• All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Trust
  • Creator
  • Teaches

• Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Really
  • Italian
  • Early

• I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Car
  • Someone

• I lost my confidence.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Movie
  • Hope

• Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Remember
  • War
  • Brain

• People say, 'He doesn't want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.' I do, of course I do, but I want to be a spokesperson for everyone. Ya know, straight people, gay people, bisexual. I don't want it to be limited.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Want
  • Community

• Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Different
  • Me
  • Like

• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Why
  • She

• The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World
  • Long
  • Friend

• My life has been a magnificent indulgence.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Life

• Is this the end of an old adventure, or the beginning of a new; is this the last attack upon a small state or is it to be followed by others; is this in fact a step in the direction of an attempt to dominate the world by force?

  

  Neville Chamberlain
  • World
  • Small
  • Beginning

• Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.

  

  Jonathan Richman
  • College
  • Band
  • Friday

• A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

  

  David Brewster
  • Truth
  • Doctrine
  • Contradictory

• Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Band
  • Beginning