Imelda May Quotes
I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.
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Gina Gershon was a year ahead of me in college.
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I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them.
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I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.
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I think it's going to end up a lot like the Internet. Some countries try to regulate the Internet - bitcoin will be very much like that. It will be legal, and there will be some countries with currency control.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
