Alma (Alma-Sofia Miettinen) Quotes
I’m different to how other pop artists look—at least I feel that way. I’m a bit different to what the pop girls are at the moment. I would love to see different kinds of women on the pop charts just making music because I’m super fed up with just seeing super pretty girls singing nice songs, you know?
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
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You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.
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I think that music has an endless life.
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No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.
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Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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I’m different to how other pop artists look—at least I feel that way. I’m a bit different to what the pop girls are at the moment. I would love to see different kinds of women on the pop charts just making music because I’m super fed up with just seeing super pretty girls singing nice songs, you know?
