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
- Up
- Different
- Business
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

Rachel Kushner
- Art
- Play
- Politics
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
- Time
- Great
- Interesting
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
- Job
- Acting
- Beat
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
- Men
- Knowledge
- Physician
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
- People
- Why
- Hate