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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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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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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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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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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Tel Aviv appeals to me.
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My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.
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Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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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.
