Lauren Mayberry Quotes
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
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I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.
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I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
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I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.
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Clarence Darrow's examination of William Jennings Bryan at the 1925 Scopes trial Scopes Trial Day 7
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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?
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The truth is, the Universe will always take care of you.
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I saw 'Alien' when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.
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It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practised in the tricks and delusions of oratory.
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A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
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No one has a better idea of what Chvrches is than we do.
