Laura Marling Quotes
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
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I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.
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The luxury we have when we do a series is that we go through a long journey, and it keeps a lot of information and things to be revealed.
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'Long Black Train' was inspired by a vision that I had of a long, black train running down this track way out in the middle of nowhere. I could see people standing out to the sides of this track watching this train go by. As I was walking, experiencing this vision, I kept asking myself, 'What does this vision mean and what is this train?'
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.
