Laura Mvula Quotes
I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy that I've had experiences that have reminded me that most exciting things might not feel so exciting later, and the most disappointing things might not be so disappointing later, either.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
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I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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I hate crap, I like craftsmanship.
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
