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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Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
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My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
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Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.
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I was a manicurist in another life.
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I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
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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.
