Imelda May Quotes
I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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Chicago - it's the Midwest, and the people are not as tough or not as edgy as they are in New York.
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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.
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When I work on my own stuff - and I think this is true for anybody - but when you work on something that you just completely own, you are trying to stay as true to your own storytelling voice as you can.
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I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.
