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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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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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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I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'
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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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The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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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.
