Laura Mvula Quotes
I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.
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You have to be ready for anything. It's a good reminder about democracy. Voters can tell you to carry on, or chuck you out. You've got to be ready for both.
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I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.
