Paloma Faith Quotes

I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.

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• For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Painting

• Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Control
  • Person
  • Situation

• There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • People
  • Nature
  • Technology

• If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Long
  • Done
  • Job

• I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Always
  • Poverty
  • Horror

• The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Hand

• The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.

  

  Vince Gill
  • People
  • Real
  • Amazing

• If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Early

• You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Done
  • Judge

• My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Want
  • Hair
  • Grow

• I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Down

• It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Pretty
  • Much
  • Thrift

• On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Reading
  • Best
  • Self

• I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Film
  • Dead

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Different
  • Way
  • Feeling

• I think it's very difficult to generalize as to why, in a particular league or a particular industry, somebody has or has not come out. We certainly don't want a player to come out for our sake. It should be what's right for him and something that he has to be comfortable with.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Why
  • Think
  • Want

• It's kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound. And it had a deep impact, and I think it still does.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Profound

• Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • World
  • Thought

• My colleagues and I would spend a lot of our own money on copy paper and pencils, and often we couldn't get the resources that would excite our students about learning.

  

  Charles Best
  • Money
  • Learning

• I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Myself
  • Weird
  • Try