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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People send me fanmail in the post, and I keep every letter, and I always say I will read every single one. It might take me years and years, but I'll do it. Your audience are what makes you, so you have give as much back as you can.
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Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
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It sounds weird when you complain about having to eat so much, but it's like a job.
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I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.
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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.
