Laura Mvula Quotes
The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.Laura Mvula
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
Damon Albarn Blur -
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
Rachel Kushner -
Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
Pardis Sabeti -
If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
Manny Montana -
They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
Baha'u'llah -
Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
P. J. O'Rourke
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
Larry Wall -
When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
Naomi Campbell -
Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
Rafael Nadal -
The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
Saint Ambrose -
Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
Kaley Cuoco -
The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
Samira Wiley -
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig -
What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
Kangana Ranaut -
It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.
Dan Stevens
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Jas, whatever Tom has under his trousers is between you and him.
Louise Rennison -
There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
Iain Duncan Smith -
In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.
John Naisbitt -
Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
Arthur Adamov -
'Misfits' is one of my favorite shows; I think it's a fantastic show.
Mark Gatiss -
The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.
Laura Mvula