Paloma Faith Quotes
No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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It's chaotic. I have heard blood-curdling screams, and every time I hear it I think someone's being brutally murdered, but I realize it's a werewolf.
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Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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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.
