Imelda May Quotes
'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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Leadership is a choice. It's not a rank, it's a choice. I know many people who are at the top of their organization who have authority. We have to do what they say because they have authority over us. But they're not leaders. We wouldn't follow them. They may be at the top of the company but they're not leaders.
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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
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We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.
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'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
