Paloma Faith Quotes
No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
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Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.
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Sometimes, of course, there's no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you'll land at a low-traffic hour, there's nothing you can do.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
