Laura Mvula Quotes
If I'm playing a gig in London, it feels so important. The adrenaline rush here is bigger than anywhere else. I kind of like the pressure that London puts you under.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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Value is what you get.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
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I get insecure about a lot of things. In my line of work, unfortunately, your appearance is important, and I'm always like, 'Am I going to the gym enough this month? Have I been taking care of myself?' I get insecure about things from time to time.
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My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
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I draft on the computer. I have a really giant screen that attaches to my laptop, and then I have a humongous digital drawing tablet called a Cintiq. It sits at all different angles, and it's so big that it would take two people to move it.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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If I'm playing a gig in London, it feels so important. The adrenaline rush here is bigger than anywhere else. I kind of like the pressure that London puts you under.
