Laura Marling Quotes
It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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It would be counterproductive to tell people exactly what they are supposed to do and exactly how they are supposed to do it to a point where they become more concerned about your expectations than about completing their work in a quality way.
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I think that's kind of my forte is that I tell people beforehand that I'm going to steal from them. And a lot of people think that that makes them safe, and hopefully I wake them up a little bit.
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The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that.
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I have mental illness in my family. I have a lot of compassion for those people.
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My mom was always driving me back and forth to guitar lessons, growing up. She was super supportive and probably my biggest cheerleader.
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It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.
