Laura Mvula Quotes

'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.

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• Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • Happy
  • Forever

• Nothing is absolute in security.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Nothing
  • Security
  • Absolute

• Life is one long process of getting tired.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Long
  • Tired

• The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Work Hard

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Dreams
  • Dress
  • Princess

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • Nature
  • Story
  • Lovers

• I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

  

  Fabrice Luchini
  • Money
  • Free
  • Man

• I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Shows

• I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Colleagues

• No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.

  

  Edmund Morgan
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  • Some

• Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Simplicity
  • Reliability

• For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.

  

  Victor LaValle
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• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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• Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
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  • Think
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• Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Work
  • Win
  • Tears

• It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • Memory
  • How

• I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Book
  • Group
  • Tend

• I love New Orleans.

  

  Chris Paul

• It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• Young Joel Benenson supported - well, I - you know, look, I supported Bobby Kennedy, not Eugene McCarthy in '68. I mean, that's where I landed.

  

  Joel Benenson

• There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Why

• 'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.

  

  Laura Mvula
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