Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money.
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I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.
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You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.
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There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
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When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
