Laura Marling Quotes
I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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America is huge.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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Rip Rig & Panic was a milestone for me, and I've always been really thankful that I did that when I was 16. It saved me for when I suddenly became really successful later on. So even when my head's been spinning like a banshee, my feet still feel held down to the ground.
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To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes' stuff is very linear, albeit complex, but it's single-line melodic stuff. So I kind of had to wear a different cap working with Yes. It's not so much chord-based.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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When you're writing, you think: How does intimacy happen in the work? You don't know who your reader is, woman, man, child, black person, Asian, who knows?
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Ernest Hemingway talked about how writing is opening up a vein and bleeding onto the page. You prepared to do that?
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
