Paloma Faith Quotes
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You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
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My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.
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I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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We live in a society where everything's packaged.
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I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
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I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.
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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.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.