Laura Mvula Quotes
Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
Quotes to Explore
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
