Laura Mvula Quotes
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

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I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.
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I've always known my dad is a one-off and his own person. But I feel that underneath he has always loved me.
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Zack Snyder is a huge fan of 'Game of Thrones,' and I met him in the training stunt facility that I train at, and I guess he really liked me because he later called me into his office, and we talked about playing Aquaman.
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Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.
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Man’s true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever. The source of this quotation (with 'chief' in place of 'true') is the Westminster Shorter Catechism, http://www.reformed.org/documents/wsc/index.html?_top=http://www.reformed.org/documents/WSC.html.
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.