Laura Marling Quotes

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

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• Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Health
  • Friend
  • Joy

• My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Brother

• Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • People
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I am who I am.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Person

• In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Day

• It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Story
  • Yourself
  • Surprise

• He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Man
  • Him
  • Telephone

• One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Done
  • Job
  • Experience

• I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Parents
  • Me

• The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Know
  • Tolerance

• The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Day
  • Settle

• Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Religion
  • Teach
  • Cost

• Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Way
  • Always
  • First Love

• I watch a lot of television. I always have.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Always
  • Television
  • Watch

• It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Dad
  • Secret
  • Fan

• The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Help

• I remember starting out and covering songs.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Remember
  • Songs
  • Starting

• In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Space
  • Moving
  • Year

• There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

  

  Anton Szandor LaVey
  • Beast
  • Exercised
  • Exorcised

• It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

  

  Elizabeth Aston
  • Imagination
  • Achieved
  • Scrape

• For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Practice
  • Gods
  • Trade

• 'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Reason
  • Almost

• I promise you. You will survive this. Feel my hand. It is yours now, my queen. I promise you. I am yours.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • You
  • Hand
  • Feel

• I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Feel
  • Finding
  • Songwriting