Paloma Faith Quotes
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To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
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I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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Drugs scared me.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams.
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at 'capitalism' because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.
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It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
