Laura Marling Quotes
I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
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What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?
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I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.
