Laura Mvula Quotes
'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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We must never bend too much.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering.
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I don't know where my career is going, but I know that when I'm not active, it really drives me crazy. So it wouldn't have to be a film with dance in it, but hopefully I'll be able to be somewhat active with the projects that I do or, if not, I'll have time on the side to do my yoga.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
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First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.
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'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.
