Paloma Faith Quotes
You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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People take things so seriously.
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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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I hate competition.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.
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The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it works.
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Worship is adoring contemplation of God.
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There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
