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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Expanded credit access has helped households maintain living standards when suffering job loss, illness, or other unexpected contingencies.
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I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.
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I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.
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I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, "Oh, this person writes their own lyrics and sometimes writes their own beats and sometimes makes her own videos." They funnel me through, "Oh, is it as good as blah-blah's record, which has had 50 million writers on it?"
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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.
