Laura Mvula Quotes
I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I don't have 'I will be a movie star' emblazoned on anything, but I'd like do a bit more screen stuff and then when the time is right come back to theatre. When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
