Laura Marling Quotes
I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
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Deal-making goes on with any job.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
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When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs.
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
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I know everything about Michael Jordan.
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I strongly believe that many of the best decisions are made on gut instinct.
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Don't try to rush progress. Remember -- a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.
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I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes.
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I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
