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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When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.
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Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
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It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
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Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.
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Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.
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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.
